Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Washington has third-highest internet use in U.S. - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, accordinb to information released Wednesdayh bythe U.S. Census. Accordingv to the Census, Alaska has the highestg rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percent of its residents having access to the internet at any followed by New Hampshire (74.6 percent) and Washingtobn (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowest internet-usages rate (51.5 percent), followed by West Virginia (52.9 The national average is 62.4 percentr The Census said that 75.7 percent of Washingtojn residents have access to the internet attheirf homes, which is third again behind New Hampshir (82.6) and Alaska (78.5) percent, and well abovw the national average of 67.1 percent.
“As access to high-speexd connections have becomemore prevalent, so too have the number of peoplwe that connect to the interneft at home,” Thom File, a statistician with the Census Bureau'w Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, said in a statemenft Wednesday. Nationwide, internet use strongly correspondsto education. Eighty-seven percent of peopld 25 and older with acollege bachelor’se degree used the internet in 2007, versus 74 percent for those with only some 49 percent for those with only a high school diplomaa and 19 percent for those who didn't finish high school.
Amonvg age groups nationwide, 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds use the 56 percent of peopls 3to 17, and 35 percent of peopler 65 and older. Among ethnic groupx nationwide, 73 percent of Asian Americans used the internerin 2007, 69 percent of 51 percent of blacks and 48 percenrt of Hispanics.

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