2003 ---- 21% of US households did not own a personal computer in 2003, with the greatest percentage of non-owners consisting of African Americans, American Indians and those in the lowest income brackets. This percentage is expected to remain fairly constant for the forseeable future. "The IBD/TIPP study was based on phone surveys of more than 6,100 adults nationwide from June to December 2003. The data can be projected out to the total U.S. market, which consists of more than 105 million homes. So more than 22 million U.S. households don't have a computer while 83 million households do, says TIPP." From "Personal Computer Still Eludes A Fifth Of U.S. Households," by Patrick Seitz. Investor's Business Daily.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/040109/tech_1.html 2000 ---- The Pew Research Center has compiled some interesting statistics concerning non-computer users in their report: Who's Not Online: 57% of those without Internet access say they do not plan to log on." Pew Internet and American Life. September 21, 2000.
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=21 "Non-computer users make up thirty-eight percent of the American population. Some 54% of them are women, and 46% are men. An interesting subgroup of non-Internet users is made up of those who use computers but do not go online. Some 14% of those without Internet access have computers. Fifty-seven percent of this computer-but-no-Internet cohort are female and there is a relatively large proportion of African-Americans in this group." (From "Part 1: An overview of the digital divide.")
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/...on=ReportLevel1&Field=Level1ID&ID=54#navigate "Fully 57% of Americans over 50 do not use computers. One third of the entire non-computer population is women over 50....Fully 28% of those over 50 who have college or graduate degrees do not have access or need for computers, while just 6% of those under 30 with college or graduate degrees do not use computers." (From "Part 3: The Grey Gap.")
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/reports.asp?Report=21&Section=ReportLevel1&Field=Level1ID&ID=56 = Seniors: "Among adults aged 55 to 75, computer ownership is 30% and growing." From "Seniors and Newbies Too," by Virginia Chilcote. MacAttitude.
macattitude.com A recent edition of The Learning Marketspace e-newsletter quoted some recent statistics on computer ownership published by the College Board. The College Board reported that 3/4 of households with incomes greater than $75,000 have computers, while 1/3 of households with incomes between $25,000 and $35,000 have computers.
http://www.stolaf.edu/services/iit/newsletter/01-03/ = Historical Overview of Computer Ownership =========================================== See the following Computer Ownership Charts: "Percent of U.S. Households with a Computer and Internet Connections" (through 2001)NTIA and ESA, U.S. Department of Commerce, using U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey Supplements.
Computers — Infoplease.com Chart A-13: Percent of U.S. Households with Computers By Household Type 1984-1998 (Selected Years)
Chart A-13: Percent of U.S. Households with Computers By Household Type 1984-1998 (Selected Years) Chart A-D: Percent of U.S. Households with Computers By Household Type. By Rural, Urban and Central City Areas. 1984-1998 (Selected Years)
Chart A-D: Percent of U.S. Households with Computers By Household Type By Rural, Urban and Central City Areas 1984-1998 (Selected Years) "Percent of U.S. Households with a Computer, 1994: By Age, by Rural, Urban, and Central-City Areas."
http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~G634-16/table2.html Computer Ownership Demographics
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Census Bureau News Hispanics Households --------------------- "Hispanics, in particular, have seen significant increases in household computer penetration. According to the "Digital World and the U.S. Hispanic II" study by Cheskin Research computer penetration among Hispanic households increased from 42.3 percent in the first quarter of 2000 to nearly 47 percent in the fourth quarter. The rate of growth of Hispanic household technology penetration over the last two years is 80 percent compared to 21 percent for the overall market." From "Global Reach Express" (23 Feb., 2001)
http://www.glreach.com/eng/ed/gre/230201.php3 Statistics on Race, Financial and Educational Barriers --------------------------------------------------------
See "Barriers to Computing - Statistics." Stanford University
http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-97-98/race-and-class-barriers/stat.html The Senior Population ---------------------- Finances and lack of training facilities are the primary factors holding Seniors back from owning computers. "Research shows that those seniors with discretionary income sufficient to purchase the equipment and software are achieving computer literacy at the same rate as younger adults. The issue for them is not overcoming technophobia but finding enough affordable places where they can train, learn to use new applications and improve their computer skills. " Read "Too Old For Computers?" (August 1999)
http://web.pdx.edu/~psu01435/tooold.html ======= CANADA ======= 2001 ---- 61% of Canadian households had personal computers. From "Summary of Canadian Internet Sector 2001." eMarketer 2002
BizReport - News & Insight for Online Marketers 1999 ---- 53% of Canadians owned personal computers. Source: Angus Reid Group "The Canadian Telecom & IT Review (Q4 1998)" and "The Interactive Reid Report (1998-99)" as presented to Staying Tuned 8 New Media; PMB'99; Nielsen Net Ratings Aug'99 / U.S. Census / Optimedia Estimates
cca-canada.com 1998 ---- 40% of Canadians had personal computers. From " Study: Canadians More Wired Than Ever," by Beth Cox. Internet.com
Study: Canadians More Wired Than Ever - InternetNews.com 1996 ---- "According to the Statistics Canada Household and Facilities Survey 1996, of approximately 11.4 million Canadian households some 3.6 million, or 31.6%, have a home computer, up over 10% from the previous year. Not surprisingly, data show that those with higher incomes are more likely to have computers." From "Who has Access to Technology?"
National Adult Literacy Database - Literacy Websites - Other Canadian Organizations
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Childhood has moved inside in one generation
by Dennis Cauchon
BELLBROOK, Ohio - Being a kid isn't what it used to be.
Dakota Howell, 9, went fishing in this town of 7,000 the other day with his mom, dad and little brother. "It's fun," he says, happily reeling in sunfish from Spring Lake during a fishing derby sponsored by Wal-Mart.
But, to be honest, he'd rather be doing something else: playing video games. "That was my first choice," he confides. "But mom says they rot your brain."
Misty Pollock, his mother, smiles. "When I was a kid, we wanted to be outdoors," she says. "Today, you have to push kids outside."
The fundamental nature of American childhood has changed in a single generation. The unstructured outdoor childhood - days of pick-up baseball games, treehouses and "be home for dinner" - has all but vanished.
Today, childhood is spent mostly indoors, watching television, playing video games and working the Internet. When children do go outside, it tends to be for scheduled events - soccer camp or a fishing derby - held under the watch of adults. In a typical week, 27% of kids ages 9 to 13 play organized baseball, but only 6% play on their own, a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.
The shift to an indoor childhood has accelerated in the past decade, with huge declines in spontaneous outdoor activities such as bike riding, swimming and touch football, according to separate studies by the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, and American Sports Data, a research firm. Bike riding alone is down 31% since 1995.
A child is six times more likely to play a video game on a typical day than to ride a bike, according to surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the CDC. Dakota Howell says his favorite video game - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - is more fun than actual skateboarding.
The change can be seen in children's bodies. In the 1960s, 4% of kids were overweight. Today, 16% are overweight, according to the CDC. It can be seen in their brains. Studies indicate that children who spend lots of time outdoors have longer attention spans than kids who watch lots of television and play video games, says Frances Kuo, director of the Human-Environment Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"New research indicates that our intuition is right: Kids are
spending way too much time with media and not enough time outside," Kuo says.
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