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Statistics: Demographics

Households

• 2016 Global Internet Phenomena: Spotlight: Inside the Connected Home, Sandvine (2016)
• U.S. Census Bureau’s Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), which includes data collected for NTIA in July 2015 from nearly 53,000 households. April 2016
• Internet Access, 2000-20005, Pew Internet, Digital Divisions (Oct. 2005) http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Digital_Divisions_Oct_5_2005.pdf.
• Households with a computer and internet access by selected characteristics, 2003 Computer and Internet Use in the United States : 2003, US Census (October 2005)
• Pew Internet Project, Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life p. 60 Demographics, education, gender, ethnicity
• Most Active Web Users are Young, Affluent, Clickz 1/7/2005
• U.S. Online Households (65.9 million 2002 - multi year spread with ethnic break down) Cyberatlas 11/8/02
• US HH Online - 2001 62.5 m - 2002 66.9 m - 2003 71.5 m - 2004 76.5 m - 2005 81.5 m - 2006 86.6 m - 2007 88.9 m Media Mixing for the Multicultural Market Cyberatlas Oct 2002 (broken down by ethnic group)
• E-Data Telecom: Yankee Group Survey Shows Why Internet Users Choose Not To Have Internet Access At Home , ITAA 1/18/02
• U.S. Homes Nixing Extra Phone Lines, Cyberatlas 9/20/01
• U.S. Households Dropping Additional Phone Lines, Inews 9/20/01
• Census offers more proof of Net growth, CNN 9/7/01
• Census shows more Americans using Internet, Nando 9/7/01
• Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August 2000 P23-207, Census 9/7/01
• 65 Million U.S. Households Use The Web, Bloomberg 09/01/01
• MetaFacts, U.S. Internet Penetration – Growing by Leaps and Bounds July 1999
• Three Out of Five Americans Connected To Net, Int Week 8/13/01
• U.S. Internet Audience Up 16 Percent in Past Year, InternetNews 8/13/01
• Report: Nearly 60 Percent of U.S. Homes Are Online, Newsfactor 8/13/01
• CyberAtlas, US Households Continue to Go Online Feb 2000
• Nielsen finds double digit growth internet subs, Nielsen 8/22/01
• ZDNet More U.S. households online than not March 2000
• Cyberatlas Home Remains the Place to Go Online Sept 2000
• CyberAtlas, One-Quarter of US Households Online  March 1999

Households :: Devices Per Household

• 2016 Global Internet Phenomena: Spotlight: Inside the Connected Home, Sandvine (2016) ("on a typical day there are 7.1 devices connected to the Internet for every household with an active xed access connection" - smartphones and tablets currently account for 30% of home traffic)

Quantitative Use

• Frequency of Use
• Vermont Residents' frequency of Internet use

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Last use of the Internet	Percent
Today	46.4
Last 7 days	20.2
Last 30 days	3.7
Last 3 months	1.0
Last 6 months	2.5
Last year	0.2
> 1 year	1.7
Never	23.7
Don't Know	0.5

Vermont Telecommunications Plan, Sept 2004 p 4-24

• Hours Online
  • Child Work Around Web Controls, BBC 3/18/9 ("UK parents believe their children are online for 18.8 hours per week. The true figure is 43.5 hours." "Kids spend 2x as much time online as their parents think")
  • Internet Captures Half of Spare Time, Emarketer 5/15/2007
  • Web Usage Growth Flatlines in U.S., Other Mature Markets, ClickZ March 21, 2005
  • Harris Poll #63 (Sept. 8, 2004) (adults) Average (Mean) Hours Per Week Spent Online ; The Harris Poll® #8, February 5, 2003 Those with Internet Access to Continue to Grow but at a Slower Rate
  • Aug. 2004: 8
  • Dec. 2003: 9
  • Dec. 2002: 7
  • Mar. 2002: 8
  • Oct. 2001: 7
  • Apr. 2001: 7
  • Nov. 2000: 7
  • May 2000: 7
  • Dec. 1999: 7
  • Hours per week at 12.5 from any location as of Feb 2004. BB users on 17.3 hours per week vs 10.6 for dialup. Jeffrey Cole, Surveying the Digital Future: The Impact of the Internet, USC Annenberg
  • UCLA World Internet Project Report, UCLA 2/18/2004 PPT (11.6 hours)
  • Year Three of the UCLA Internet Report, UCLA p. 22  (Jan. 2003
    • Weekly Hours Online
    • 2000:  9.4
    • 2001  9.8
    • 2002:  11.1
    • Weekly Hours Online 2002 By Experience
    • Less than 1 year:  5.5
    • 1 to 2 years:  6.7
    • 2 to 4:  9.2
    • 4 to 6:  10.9
    • 6 or more years: 15.8
  • Broadband Users Pull Ahead in Online Hours, Cyberatlas March 5, 2002 (stats on what people are doing on broadband internet)
  • BROADBAND NET SURFING ACCOUNTS FOR MORE THAN HALF OF ALL TIME SPENT ONLINE, ACCORDING TO NIELSEN//NETRATINGS March 2002
  • Broadband Users Pull Ahead in Online Hours Cyberatlas March 2002
  • Half of PC Time Spent Online Cyberatlas 1999

 

Gender

• Pew Internet Project, Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life p. 60 Growth of Internet Usage by Gender
• UCLA World Internet Project Report, UCLA 2/18/2004 "In the United States, 73.1 percent of men use the Internet compared to 69 percent of women — about half the average gap of countries in the UCLA World Internet Project." Includes Intl stats  PPT
• Year Three of the UCLA Internet Report, UCLA p. 21  (Jan. 2003)
• UN Conference on Trade and Development Ecommerce and Development Report 2002 (Gender, Ecommerce, and Development, Chapter 3)
• US Women's Net Use Grows, Newsbytes 1/18/02
• More women heading home to surf, CNET 1/18/02
• Study: Women top Web holiday spenders, CNN 1/4/02
• Women surpass men as e-shoppers during the Holidays January 1, 2002, Pew 1/4/02
• Women catch up on net use, BBC 12/18/01

Location of Interner Usage

• Location of Interner Usage in past 12 months. Vermont Telecommunications Plan, Sept 2004 p. 4-33

• 	Percentage
  Home	83.7
  Work	52.0
  Friend / Neighbor / Relative	30.7
  School / College	18.9
  Library	13.9
  Govt Office	2.0
  Senior Center	1.4
  Restaurant	1.0
  Place of Worship	0.7
  Other Business	3.7
  Other	1.4

  Interest in seeing more public Internet terminals: Yes 27.2 : No 42.1 : Dont Know 30.7 Vermont Telecommunications Plan, Sept 2004 p. 4-33

  Schools & Libraries

Language

• Internet World Users by Language, Internet World Stats 
• National Virtual Translation Center (USG) Languages of the Internet
• Global Internet Statistics (by Language) (table contains data broken down by language of Internet Access, Percent World Online Pop, Total Pop, GDP, Net Hosts - nice pie chart)

• Online Language Populations: Sept 2002 English English 36.5% - Chinese 10.9% - Japanese 9.7% - Spanish 7.2% - German 6.7% - Korean 4.5% - Italian 3.8% - French 3.5% - Portuguese 3.0% - Russian 2.9% - Dutch 2.0% Source: Global Reach Media Mixing for the Multicultural Market Cyberatlas Oct 2002

• Internet Language 2002

	Users by language	Web Content by Language
English	36%	69%
Chinese	11%	4%
Japanese	10%	6%
Spanish	7%	2%
German	7%	6%
Korean	5%	1%
French	5%	3%
Italian	4%	1%
Other	16%	9%

• ITU: Birth of Broadband, ITU Internet Report, (Sept 2003) Figure 4.4 page 63
• Country and language statistics OLCL.org
• Internet Statistics: Distribution of languages on the Internet Chart of Web content (milions of webpages by language) 2002 Source: Das Internet spricht Englisch ... und neuerdings auch Deutsch Netz-tipp.de
• Online Language Populations Cyberatlas 11/8/02
• Global Reach: Global Internet Statistics (by Language)

Generations Online in 2009 Charts View more presentations from PewInternet.

Age

• Teens and Technology, Pew 7/29/2005

Rural v Urban | Digital Divide

• CRS Report: Exploring the Digital Divide Regional Differences in  Patterns of Internet Use in the  United States

Volume I: Surveying the Divide Prepared for  The Congressional Research Service By The LBJ School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin (August 2004)

Table 1: Internet Use by Geographical Location

	December 1998	August 2000	September 2001
Rural	29.3	42.5	52.9
Urban	33.9	45.0	54.2
- Not Central City	36.1	47.9	57.4
- Central City	30.6	40.6	49.1

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Computer and Internet Use Supplements, Current Population Survey, December 1998, August 2000, September 2001.

Internet Use 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 ¨Source: NTIA and ESA, U.S. Department of Commerce, using U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey Supplements¨ A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet, NTIA Chapt 2, 2/4/02	Figure 2-3: Growth in Internet Use by Family Income, Percent of Persons Age 3 + (Annual Rate) December 1998 to September 2001 Source: NTIA and ESA, U.S. Department of Commerce, using U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey Supplements¨ A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet, NTIA Chapt 2, 2/4/02
Figure 1-1: Percent of U.S. Households with a Computer and Internet Connections, Selected Years  Source: NTIA and ESA, U.S. Department of Commerce, using U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey Supplements¨ A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet, NTIA Chapt 1, 2/4/02

Figure 1-4: Different Perspectives on Internet Access and Use

Source: NTIA and ESA, U.S. Department of Commerce, using U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey Supplements¨
A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet, NTIA Chapt 1, 2/4/02

Ethnicity

• Survey: Internet use grows fast among Latinos, Pew Internet 12/22/20
• Latinos Online, Pew Internet 3/27/2007
• US HH Online - 2001 62.5 m - 2002 66.9 m - 2003 71.5 m - 2004 76.5 m - 2005 81.5 m - 2006 86.6 m - 2007 88.9 m Media Mixing for the Multicultural Market Cyberatlas Oct 2002 (broken down by ethnic group)

States

Vermont Residents' who have Internet access at home: No: 34% - Yes: 66% - Refused: 0% Vermont Telecommunications Plan, Sept 2004 p. 4-25