Hispanic Online Use Still Lower Than Others, but Gap Narrowing, NTIA Says
Hispanics continued to lag behind other ethnic groups in Internet use in 2013, the NTIA said in a blog post Tuesday. Hispanic online use was 61 percent, trailing non-Hispanic whites (75.4 percent), Asian-Americans (75.3 percent) and African-Americans (64 percent), NTIA…
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said, citing a Census Bureau July 2013 survey. Hispanics did narrow the gap some from 2011, when their Internet use was 54.4 percent, while overall, Internet use by Americans edged up from 69.7 percent to 71.4 percent from 2011 to 2013. “Language barriers and citizenship considerations may be associated with differing levels of Internet use and help explain this dimension of the digital divide,” said John Morris, associate administrator-NTIA Office of Policy Analysis and Development, saying the Hispanic population is on average younger than other groups. “Low Internet use in the Hispanic community continues to be a major concern, although adoption is growing more rapidly for this group than the country as a whole.”