Table 1:
Limitations in Device and High-Speed Internet Access of Households in 2019a
| Characteristic | Without desktop or laptop computer with high-speed internet | Without smartphone with a data plan for wireless internet | Without any digital access | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion (95% CI), % | P value | Proportion (95% CI), % | P value | Proportion (95% CI), % | P value | |
| Among the whole population | 32.29 (32.17, 32.41) |
NA | 21.51 (21.40, 21,61) |
NA | 14.02 (13.93, 14.11) |
NA |
| Geographic area | ||||||
| Non-metro | 48.01 (47.64, 48.39) |
< .001 | 33.08 (32.73, 33.44) |
< .001 | 23.42 (23.10, 23.74) |
< .001 |
| Metro | 30.64 (30.51, 30.76) |
20.29 (20.18, 20.40) |
13.03 (12.94, 13.13) |
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| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 28.36 (28.23, 28.49) |
< .001 | 20.87 (20.75, 20.98) |
< .001 | 12.55 (12.45, 12.65) |
< .001 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 45.70 (45.39, 46.11) |
27.97 (27.61, 28.33) |
21.17 (20.84, 21.50) |
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| Hispanic | 42.17 (41.82, 42.53) |
22.46 (22.15, 22.76) |
16.86 (16.59, 17.14) |
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| American Indian or Alaska Native | 53.58 (51.77, 55.39) |
34.24 (32.57, 35.90) |
27.50 (25.95, 29.05) |
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| Asian or Pacific Islander | 20.73 (20.29, 21.17) |
12.57 (12.20, 12.94) |
7.44 (7.14, 7.74) |
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| Other race | 36.29 (33.18, 39.41) |
20.25 (17.73, 22.78) |
13.74 (11.57, 15.91) |
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| Two or more major races | 28.26 (27.34, 29.19) |
15.47 (14.71, 16.23) |
10.15 (9.52, 10.78) |
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| Health insurance coverage | ||||||
| Private coverageb | 20.77 (20.62, 20.91) |
< .001 | 10.36 (10.25, 10.47) |
< .001 | 5.26 (5.18, 5.35) |
< .001 |
| Uninsured | 49.71 (49.20, 50.21) |
24.86 (24.42, 25.31) |
19.30 (18.89, 19.71) |
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| Public coveragec | 45.14 (44.95, 45.34) |
36.76 (36.57, 36.94) |
25.46 (25.28, 25.63) |
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| Poverty Level (as a percentage of the poverty thresholds)d | ||||||
| <100 | 58.22 (57.83, 58.60) |
< .001 | 38.52 (38.14, 38.90) |
< .001 | 31.36 (30.99, 31.73) |
< .001 |
| 100–200 | 50.07 (49.74, 50.40) |
34.15 (33.84, 34.46) |
25.50 (25.21, 25.79) |
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| 200–300 | 38.53 (38.20, 38.86) |
25.54 (25.25, 25.83) |
16.62 (16.37, 16.87) |
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| 300–400 | 29.97 (29.66, 30.29) |
19.76 (19.49, 20.03) |
11.23 (11.01, 11.45) |
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| ≥400 | 17.89 (17.75, 18.03) |
11.81 (11.69, 11.92) |
5.43 (5.35, 5.52) |
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| Number of family members | ||||||
| 1 | 46.30 (46.07, 46.53) |
< .001 | 35.28 (35.06, 35.49) |
< .001 | 25.89 (25.69, 26.09) |
< .001 |
| 2 | 28.43 (28.24, 28.62) |
19.76 (19.60, 19.93) |
11.23 (11.09, 11.36) |
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| 3 | 24.61 (24.31, 24.91) |
12.29 (12.06, 12.52) |
6.96 (6.78, 7.14) |
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| 4 | 21.32 (21.00, 21.64) |
9.58 (9.34, 9.81) |
5.21 (5.03, 5.39) |
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| ≥5 | 25.56 (25.17, 25.95) |
11.77 (11.46, 12.07) |
6.88 (6.64, 7.12) |
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Analysis based on 1,210,714 observations in the 2019 American Community Survey, among them 135,748 are non-metro and 925,711 are metro, after weighting, representing 10,010,638 and 95,302,321 households respectively.
Poverty level expresses each family’s total income for the previous year as a percentage of the poverty thresholds established by the Social Security Administration, adjusted for inflation.
Private coverage is classified by the Census Bureau to include employer- or union-provided insurance, plans purchases by individuals from private insurance companies and military health care.
Public coverage is classified by the Census Bureau to include the federal insurance programs Medicare, Medicaid, and the Department of Veterans Affairs insurance.