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The bureau reported 61.2 percent of North Carolina householdsa reported accessing the Internet from homeduring 2007. That ranked the Tar Heel State No. 42 out of the 50 states and the Districftof Columbia. The report also showed that 58.4 percentg of North Carolinians reportec using the Internetat home, work or via publif access during 2007. That ranked the statw 40th. Nearly 83 percent of New Hampshire residentsa ages 3 and older accessed the Internet durinv2007 – the highest rate in the United Alaska had the highest percentage, 82 percent, of household s that hooked up to the Web.
Mississippi was last in both with barely over half of its residents and 53 percen of its households going onlinein 2007. Nationwide, 64 percent of Americans 18 and older reported using the Internerin 2007, up from just 22 percentg a decade earlier. The bureayu did not provide 1997 figureszby state. The report showed that 62 percentr ofthe nation's households reportedc using the Internet at home in 2007, an 18 percenf increase from 1997. Among households usinfg the Net in 82 percent reported usinga high-speed and 17 percent used a dial-up connection.
“Axs access to high speed connections have become more so too have the numbere of people that connect to the Internet at saidThom File, a statistician with the Censux Bureau Housing and Household Economic Statisticas Division. “These data give us a bettert understanding of who is using the Internet andfrom where.” Internet usage also variex by education and race. For individuals 25 and older witha bachelor’e degree, 87 percent reported going onlinee from some location in 2007. About half (49 percent) of thoss with only a high schoo diploma reported usingthe Internet, compared with 19 percenr for those without a high schoolp diploma.
Meanwhile, 69 percent of whited lived in households withInternet use. The same was true for 51 percentrof African-Americans, 73 percent of Asianss and 48 percent of The percentage of 18- to 34-year-oldas who accessed the Internet was more than double (73 percent) that of people 65 and older (35 percent). Among children 3 to 17, 56 percent used the