Thursday, July 5, 2007

Pew Internet: 29% of Latino households subscribe to broadband at home

Pew Research finds that 29 percent of Latino households have broadband at home.

Pew earlier this year found that Latino households that are English-dominant are more likely to have internet access than Latino households that are Spanish-dominant.
Key findings from the Pew Report on Latinos and Broadband
  • "56% of Latinos go online from any location. This is slightly lower than the rate of internet usage among African-Americans (62%) and rural adults (60%).
  • 29% of Hispanic adults have a home broadband connection, compared with 31%
    for rural dwellers, 40% for African-Americans and 47% for the adult population
    as a whole. As with African-Americans and rural residents, low broadband
    penetration among Hispanics is influenced heavily by low internet usage within
    this group.
  • Among Latinos with home internet access, 66% have a broadband connection; this is comparable to the overall percentage for all internet users (70%)."
The pdf of the report can be found here: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Broadband%202007.pdf

The San Francisco paper had a short blurb on the report.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=18245

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