Poll: About 80 percent of U.S. adults are connected
By Erina Lin, Wednesday 7 November 2007 at 22:22 :: World Digital Media Trends :: #820 :: rss
Four out of five U.S. adults go online now, a new survey has found.
This new Harris Poll, which surveyed 2,062 U.S. adults between July and October, found that 79 percent of adults, or about 178 million, are wired, spending 11 hours a week on average online.
A steady rise since 2000 has been observed - only 57 percent of adults polled said they went online in 2000, while in 2006, the number was up to 77 percent, according to the Washington Post.
When Harris Interactive first surveyed the online usage among adults in 1995, only nine percent of the population, or 17.5 million, said they were online.
It also found that adults are spending time online mostly at home and then at workplace, while 72 percent and 37 percent said they did so, respectively. Only 31 percent said they went online elsewhere.
Demographically, the poll found the online population pretty much aligns with the general population.
For example, 25 percent of adults online were between 18 and 29 years old, the age group that makes up 22 percent of the U.S. adult population.
Hispanics make up 13 percent of the adult population, and also account for 13 percent of the online population in the poll.
Although online access is still dominated by younger adults, the poll pointed out that nine percent of those who go online are above the age of 65.
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