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The bureau reported 61.2 percent of North Carolinaq households reported accessing the Internet from home during 2007. That ranked the Tar Heel Statse No. 42 out of the 50 states and the Districrtof Columbia. The report also showed that 58.4 percent of Nort h Carolinians reported using the Internetat home, work or via publidc access during 2007. That ranked the state Nearly 83 percent of New Hampshire residentd ages 3 and older accessed the Internet durinf2007 – the highest rate in the United Alaska had the highest percentage, 82 of households that hooked up to the Web.
Mississippo was last in both categories, with barely over half of its resident and 53 percent of its households goingf onlinein 2007. Nationwide, 64 percent of Americans 18 and olde r reported using the Internet in up from just 22 percent adecade earlier. The burea did not provide 1997 figureesby state. The report showed that 62 percent ofthe nation's householdz reported using the Internet at home in 2007, an 18 percent increasew from 1997. Among households using the Net in 82 percent reported usinga high-speed connection, and 17 percen t used a dial-up connection.
“As access to high speed connectionsd have become more so too have the number of peopl that connect to the Internet at saidThom File, a statisticiajn with the Census Bureau Housing and Householdd Economic Statistics Division. “These data give us a bettef understanding of who is using the Internet and from Internet usage also varied by educationand race. For individualw 25 and older witha bachelor’s 87 percent reported goingt online from some location in 2007. Abou t half (49 percent) of thosw with only a high school diploma reported usinythe Internet, compared with 19 percent for thoses without a high school diploma.
Meanwhile, 69 percenyt of whites lived in households withInternet use. The same was true for 51 percenytof African-Americans, 73 percenrt of Asians and 48 percent of The percentage of 18- to 34-year-oldsx who accessed the Internet was more than doubl (73 percent) that of people 65 and older (35 Among children 3 to 17, 56 percent used the