Children's internet access and use of internet for learning activities: Percentage of children from birth to age 5 and not yet in kindergarten whose households had internet access and who accessed internet at home for learning activities at all and at least weekly, by child and family characteristics: 2019

Characteristics	Household had internet access			Child accessed internet at home for learning activities at all¹	Child accessed internet at home for learning activities at least weekly¹
Characteristics	Total	On a cell phone	On a computer or tablet
Total	98	97	88	58	48

Child’s race/ethnicity
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	100	98	96	69	60
Black, non-Hispanic	97	96	82	62	58
Hispanic	98	98	84	66	57
White, non-Hispanic	98	97	90	51	40
Other race, non-Hispanic²	99	98	87	59	49

Highest education level of parents/guardians
Less than high school	92	90	64	60	53
High school/GED	96	94	75	57	51
Vocational/technical or some college	99	98	88	60	53
Bachelor’s degree	100	99	95	59	47
Graduate or professional degree	100	99	99	53	41

English spoken at home by parents/guardians³
Both/only parent(s)/guardian(s) speak(s) English	99	98	89	56	46
One of two parents/guardians speaks English	97	96	85	71	65
No parent/guardian speaks English	94	93	75	71	62

Recency of immigration⁴
Child born outside the U.S.	96	95	89	80	75
Hispanic	94	94	83	86	80
Non-Hispanic	97	96	92	77	72
First generation	98	97	87	65	57
Hispanic	98	98	80	71	63
Non-Hispanic	98	97	94	60	52
Second generation or higher	98	97	88	55	45
Hispanic	98	97	87	60	51
Non-Hispanic	98	97	88	54	44

Poverty status⁵
At or below poverty threshold	94	92	65	60	53
Between poverty threshold and 200 percent of poverty threshold	98	97	83	59	51
At or above 200 percent of poverty threshold	99	99	96	57	46

Locale of child's household⁶
City	98	98	88	59	51
Suburban	99	98	91	60	50
Town	98	97	84	53	42
Rural	96	95	81	52	41

¹ Among children whose households had internet access. About 2 percent of children, 414,000 children, from birth through age 5 and not yet in kindergarten whose household did not have internet access are excluded from the column.
² "Other race, non-Hispanic" includes American Indian/Alaska Native children who are not Hispanic, children who are Two or more races and not Hispanic, and non-Hispanic children whose parents did not choose any race from the categories provided on the race item in the questionnaire.
³ Complete descriptions of the categories for English spoken at home by parents/guardians are as follows: (1) Both parents/guardians or the only parent/guardian learned English first or currently speak(s) English in the home, (2) One of two parents/guardians in a two-parent/guardian household learned English first or currently speaks English in the home, and (3) No parent/guardian learned English first and both parents/guardians or the only parent/guardian currently speak(s) a non-English language in the home.
⁴ Children born outside the U.S. were not born in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or the Northern Marianas. Children defined as "first generation" were born in the United States, but one or both of their parents were born outside the United States. Children defined as "second generation or higher" were born in the United States, as were both of their parents. Children born abroad to U.S.-citizen parents are considered born in the United States and counted as "second generation or higher."
⁵ The poverty threshold is a dollar amount determined by the federal government and updated annually to account for inflation, and which varies depending on a family's size and composition. Thresholds used to define poverty are based on weighted averages from 2018 Census poverty thresholds. In 2018, for example, the weighted average poverty threshold for a family of four was $25,701. Survey respondents are asked to select the range within which their income falls, rather than giving the exact amount of their income; therefore, the measure of poverty status is an approximation.
⁶ Locale of child’s household classifies the residential ZIP code into a set of four major locale categories: city, suburban, town, rural.
NOTE: Estimates represent 21,195,000 children. Exercise caution when interpreting values of 100 percent. Estimates are based on a sample of the total population and provide only an approximation of the true or actual value, therefore a value of 100 does not mean that every person in that group has a particular experience or opinion.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Program Participation Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (ECPP-NHES), 2019.