Students' internet access and use of internet for learning activities: Percentage of students ages 5 to 17 whose households had internet access and who accessed internet at home for learning activities at all and at least weekly, by selected student, parent, and household characteristics: 2019

Characteristics	Household had internet access			Student accessed internet at home for learning activities at all¹	Student accessed internet at home for learning activities at least weekly¹
Characteristics	Total	On a cell phone	On a computer or tablet
Total	98	97	92	95	84
Student’s race/ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	98	97	78	91	79
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	100	99	97	98	92
Asian, non-Hispanic	100	99	97	98	92
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	100	100	95	95	90
Black, non-Hispanic	98	97	88	95	86
Hispanic	99	98	88	95	85
Cuban	98	98	98	100	98
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano	99	98	87	95	84
Puerto Rican	98	98	90	96	84
Another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin or more than one Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin	99	98	90	95	86
White, non-Hispanic	98	97	94	95	82
Other race, non-Hispanic²	100	97	92	94	82

Recency of immigration³
Student born outside the U.S.	99	98	89	94	88
Hispanic	97	97	80	94	86
Non-Hispanic	100	99	94	95	89
First generation	100	99	93	97	89
Hispanic	100	99	89	96	88
Non-Hispanic	100	98	98	97	90
Second generation or higher	98	97	92	94	82
Hispanic	98	97	89	95	82
Non-Hispanic	98	96	92	94	82

Highest education level of parent(s)/guardian(s)
Less than high school	92	90	73	93	85
High school/GED	98	96	86	94	82
Vocational/technical or some college	99	98	93	94	82
Bachelor’s degree	100	99	98	97	86
Graduate or professional degree	100	99	99	97	85

English spoken at home by parent(s)/guardian(s)⁴
Both/only parent(s)/guardian(s) speak(s) English	99	97	93	95	83
One of two parents/guardians speaks English	96	95	85	95	86
No parent/guardian speaks English	97	96	84	95	88

Poverty status⁵
At or below poverty threshold	94	92	75	92	83
Between poverty threshold and 200 percent of poverty threshold	99	97	89	93	82
At or above 200 percent of poverty threshold	99	98	97	96	85

Locale of student's household⁶
City	99	98	91	95	85
Suburban	100	98	96	96	86
Town	98	97	88	93	80
Rural	96	94	86	92	79

Region
Northeast	97	95	92	95	85
South	99	98	90	95	84
Midwest	98	97	91	95	83
West	99	98	95	96	84

¹Among students who had internet access. About 2 percent of students, 818,000 students, age 5 to 17 whose households did not have internet access are excluded from the column.
²"Other race, non-Hispanic" includes non-Hispanic students of Two or more races, and non-Hispanic students whose parents did not choose any race from the categories provided on the race item in the questionnaire.
³ Students 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. Students defined as "first generation" were born in the United States, but one or both of their parents were born outside the United States. Students defined as "second generation or higher" were born in the United States, as were both of their parents. Students born abroad to U.S.-born parents are considered born in the United States and counted as "second generation or higher."
⁴ 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.
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 student’s household classifies the residential ZIP code into a set of four major locale categories: city, suburban, town, rural.
NOTE: 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, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES), 2019.