New Report: Latinos Online: Hispanics with Lower Levels of Education and English Proficiency Remain Largely Disconnected from the Internet,"
By Susannah Fox and Gretchen Livingston
Pew Hispanic Center
March 14, 2007
In the Pew Hispanic Center's [23-page] report, "Latinos Online: Hispanics with Lower Levels of Education and English Proficiency Remain Largely Disconnected from the Internet," researchers Susannah Fox and Gretchen Livingston profile Internet usage among Latino adults. The authors found that more than one-in-two Latinos (56%) goes online, a lower rate than among non-Hispanic whites (71%) and non-Hispanic blacks (60%); 78% of Latinos who are English-dominant and 76% of bilingual Latinos use the Internet, compared with 32% of Spanish-dominant Hispanic adults; and Mexicans, the largest national origin group in the U.S. Latino population, are among the least likely to go online. According to the authors, several socio-economic characteristics that are often intertwined, including low levels of education and limited English ability, largely explain the gap in internet use between Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
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One of the primary contributors to this problem is clear lack of content that is relevant to the needs and values of people with limited English skills.
ReplyDeleteWe've recently started a website that we envision will serve as a guide to the companies, services, and websites that are available in Spanish here in the United States.
Hopefully as the site grows, it will help --even if it is in a small scale-- to close this digital divide.
In my original comment I forgot to include the address to our website: www.enespanolporfavor.com
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work in this blog!
Carlos