{"id":2255,"date":"2012-04-19T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/blog\/?page_id=2255"},"modified":"2012-05-30T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:27:51","slug":"rates-of-computers-and-internet-use-description-of-table-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/?page_id=2255","title":{"rendered":"Rates of Computers and Internet Use description of table 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rate of Computers and Internet Use<\/h1>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #888888;\">description of table 1<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Computer Ownership and Internet Usage by Location<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s Current Population Survey categories include &#8220;metropolitan&#8221; (i.e. urban) and &#8220;non-metropolitan&#8221; (i.e. rural). The metropolitan category is further differentiated into &#8220;city&#8221; (central city) and &#8220;suburb&#8221; categories. Across these settings, there is a large and statistically significant difference between people (aged 15 and over), with and without work disabilities, in individual computer ownership and Internet usage.<\/p>\n<p>Percent of individuals who own a computer:<\/p>\n<p>53.5 percent of metropolitan individuals who have no disability own a computer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">25 percent of metropolitan individuals with a disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">57.5 percent of suburban individuals who have no disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">28.7 percent of suburban individuals with a disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">47.4 percent of central city individuals who have no disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">19.9 percent of central city individuals with a disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">44.5 percent of rural individuals who have no disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">19.8 percent of rural individuals with a disability own a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Percent of Individuals Who Use the Internet:<\/p>\n<p>39.3 percent of metropolitan individuals who have no disability use the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">10.9 percent of metropolitan individuals with a disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">41.9 percent of suburban individuals who have no disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">11.6 percent of suburban individuals with a disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">36.4 percent of central city individuals with no disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">8.8 percent of central city individuals with a disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">33.1 percent of rural individuals with no disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">6.8 percent of rural individuals with a disability use the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: H.S. Kaye. Unpublished data, derived from Computer and Internet use among people with disabilities. Disabilities Statistics Report 13, March 2000.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ruralfacts Rates of Computer and Internet Use\" href=\"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/blog\/?page_id=2252#T1\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Return to text<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rate of Computers and Internet Use description of table 1 Computer Ownership and Internet Usage by Location The U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s Current Population Survey categories include &#8220;metropolitan&#8221; (i.e. urban) and &#8220;non-metropolitan&#8221; (i.e. rural). The metropolitan category is further differentiated into &#8220;city&#8221; (central city) and &#8220;suburb&#8221; categories. Across these settings, there is a large and statistically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":2252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2255\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}