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Table 427. Percent of home computer users using specific applications, by selected characteristics: October 1997 and September 2001

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                       |    Number   | Percent  |    Number    | Percent  |         Percent of computer users using specific applications, 2001 \1\
                       |     of      |of persons|     of       |of persons|________________________________________________________________________________________
       Selected        |    home     |  using   |    home      |  using   |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
    characteristic     |   computer  | computers|   computer   |computers |  Word    |  Connect |  E-mail  |  Spread-  |Graphics/ |  School  |Household |  Games
                       | users, 1997,|  at home,| users, 2001, |at home,  |processing|    to    |          |  sheets/  |design\2\ |  assign- | records/ |
                       | in thousands|  1997    | in thousands |  2001    |          | Internet |          |databases\2|          |  ments   |finances\2|
_______________________|_____________|__________|______________|__________|__________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________|__________
           1           |       2     |      3   |      4       |      5   |    6     |    7     |    8     |    9      |    10    |    11    |   12     |    13
_______________________|_____________|__________|______________|__________|__________|__________|__________|___________|__________|__________|__________|__________
Total, age 3 and over  |81,013(600.0)|31.7(0.16)|138,915(872.9)|52.4(0.17)|55.0(0.23)|83.2(0.17)|74.2(0.20)|  --- (---)| --- (---)|25.7(0.20)| --- (---)|65.6(0.22)
Total, age 15 and over |62,239(505.5)|30.0(0.17)|109,901(738.6)|50.8(0.19)|59.2(0.26)|89.3(0.16)|83.3(0.19)| 31.8(0.24)|25.5(0.23)|17.9(0.20)|28.5(0.24)|58.2(0.26)
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          Sex          |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
Male ..................|41,260(412.6)|33.1(0.22)| 68,255(585.1)|52.8(0.23)|50.9(0.32)|83.6(0.24)|72.9(0.28)| 26.8(0.28)|20.2(0.26)|25.1(0.28)|23.4(0.27)|68.9(0.29)
Female ................|39,753(384.7)|30.3(0.20)| 70,660(573.2)|51.9(0.22)|58.9(0.29)|82.8(0.23)|75.5(0.26)| 23.5(0.25)|20.2(0.24)|26.2(0.26)|21.7(0.25)|62.4(0.29)
                       |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
    Race/ethnicity     |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
White, non-Hispanic ...|68,026(543.7)|36.9(0.19)|110,314(756.8)|59.1(0.20)|55.5(0.26)|84.7(0.19)|76.3(0.22)| 25.7(0.23)|20.4(0.21)|23.8(0.22)|23.6(0.22)|65.1(0.25)
Black, non-Hispanic ...| 4,943(136.3)|15.6(0.36)| 11,288(226.6)|33.9(0.46)|54.7(0.83)|78.0(0.69)|66.2(0.79)| 24.3(0.72)|20.7(0.68)|33.1(0.78)|18.9(0.65)|71.0(0.76)
Hispanic ..............| 4,081(139.0)|14.5(0.41)|  9,830(241.2)|30.6(0.51)|48.1(0.99)|72.1(0.89)|59.4(0.98)| 18.9(0.78)|17.2(0.75)|33.4(0.94)|16.2(0.73)|68.5(0.92)
Asian/Pacific Islander | 3,469(126.5)|37.6(1.00)|  6,519(184.8)|61.1(0.93)|57.5(1.21)|86.1(0.84)|77.1(1.03)| 27.1(1.09)|20.3(0.98)|32.8(1.15)|20.8(0.99)|58.3(1.21)
American Indian/Alaska |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
  Native ..............|   493 (44.4)|23.0(1.79)|    964 (62.8)|42.6(2.05)|47.8(3.18)|72.3(2.85)|59.8(3.12)| 19.2(2.50)|18.2(2.45)|29.1(2.89)|16.3(2.35)|77.2(2.67)
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          Age          |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
3 to 14 ...............|18,774(249.8)|39.1(0.39)| 29,014(319.0)|59.4(0.38)|39.0(0.49)|60.2(0.50)|39.9(0.50)|  --- (---)| --- (---)|54.9(0.50)| --- (---)|93.6(0.25)
15 to 19 ..............| 8,395(162.3)|43.1(0.61)| 13,624(209.8)|67.4(0.57)|70.1(0.68)|87.9(0.48)|80.8(0.58)| 25.1(0.64)|32.3(0.69)|81.0(0.58)| 5.2(0.33)|81.1(0.58)
20 to 24 ..............| 4,975(123.7)|28.5(0.59)| 10,471(182.3)|55.1(0.62)|65.3(0.80)|88.6(0.54)|83.2(0.63)| 31.6(0.79)|28.9(0.77)|41.7(0.83)|17.0(0.63)|68.0(0.79)
25 to 29 ..............| 5,963(135.8)|31.7(0.59)|  9,729(175.3)|55.3(0.65)|58.7(0.86)|91.5(0.49)|86.2(0.60)| 35.7(0.84)|27.3(0.78)|14.0(0.61)|34.5(0.83)|59.8(0.86)
30 to 39 ..............|15,393(224.1)|35.8(0.40)| 24,514(289.8)|59.9(0.42)|56.4(0.55)|90.1(0.33)|84.5(0.40)| 34.7(0.53)|25.9(0.48)| 6.5(0.27)|35.5(0.53)|57.3(0.55)
40 to 49 ..............|15,346(223.7)|38.3(0.42)| 25,022(293.2)|57.7(0.41)|58.0(0.54)|90.5(0.32)|83.5(0.41)| 33.9(0.52)|25.4(0.48)| 3.8(0.21)|33.9(0.52)|52.1(0.55)
50 to 59 ..............| 7,679(154.9)|28.5(0.48)| 15,887(228.0)|50.2(0.49)|58.0(0.68)|89.6(0.42)|83.7(0.51)| 33.2(0.65)|23.0(0.58)| 2.4(0.21)|32.8(0.64)|46.3(0.68)
60 to 69 ..............| 3,162 (98.1)|16.2(0.46)|  6,874(146.2)|34.2(0.58)|53.6(1.04)|87.0(0.70)|81.8(0.80)| 26.7(0.92)|16.8(0.78)| 0.1(0.07)|29.8(0.95)|51.1(1.04)
70 or older ...........| 1,327 (63.2)| 5.9(0.27)|  3,780(107.4)|16.1(0.41)|44.7(1.40)|81.2(1.10)|76.0(1.20)| 17.8(1.08)|11.0(0.88)|  #   (#) |26.3(1.24)|52.8(1.40)
                       |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
   Family income\3\    |             |          |              |          |          |          |          |           |          |          |          |
Under $20,000 .........| 7,374(151.6)|11.0(0.21)|  9,589(174.0)|22.6(0.35)|49.8(0.88)|70.3(0.81)|61.6(0.86)| 18.8(0.69)|17.4(0.67)|35.0(0.84)|15.0(0.63)|73.2(0.78)
$20,000 to $29,999 ....| 7,819(156.3)|19.9(0.35)| 10,590(183.4)|35.5(0.48)|46.1(0.84)|75.9(0.72)|67.1(0.79)| 17.6(0.64)|17.8(0.64)|25.5(0.73)|16.1(0.62)|71.8(0.76)
$30,000 to $39,999 ....|10,370(181.4)|28.5(0.41)| 13,295(207.0)|47.7(0.52)|49.0(0.75)|78.0(0.62)|68.8(0.69)| 20.5(0.60)|17.5(0.57)|24.3(0.64)|19.8(0.60)|70.1(0.69)
$40,000 to $49,999 ....| 9,627(174.4)|36.9(0.52)| 13,222(206.4)|58.9(0.57)|52.2(0.75)|81.9(0.58)|72.0(0.67)| 21.0(0.61)|18.6(0.59)|25.8(0.66)|20.9(0.61)|71.2(0.68)
$50,000 to $74,999 ....|21,685(270.5)|46.5(0.40)| 30,245(326.7)|67.7(0.38)|53.7(0.50)|84.2(0.36)|74.8(0.43)| 24.9(0.43)|20.2(0.40)|24.9(0.43)|22.5(0.41)|66.8(0.47)
$75,000 or more .......|24,138(287.3)|60.3(0.42)| 44,909(412.7)|79.6(0.29)|62.6(0.39)|88.5(0.26)|80.2(0.32)| 31.7(0.38)|23.1(0.34)|25.4(0.35)|27.5(0.36)|59.6(0.40)
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---Not available. #Rounds to zero.
\1\Individuals may be counted in more than one computer activity. \2\Data are for persons 15 years old and over. \3\Excludes persons not reporting income.

NOTE: Excludes persons under age 3. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1997 and September 2001, unpublished data. (This table was prepared March 2003.)


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