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The bureau reported 61.2 percentg of North Carolina households reported accessing the Internet from homedurinf 2007. That ranked the Tar Heel Statr No. 42 out of the 50 states and the Distric tof Columbia. The report also showed that 58.4 percenyt of North Carolinians reported using the Internetat home, work or via public access during 2007. That ranked the state Nearly 83 percent of New Hampshire residents ages 3 and oldee accessed the Internet during 2007 the highest rate in the United Alaska had thehighest percentage, 82 percent, of householdx that hooked up to the Web.
Mississippui was last in both categories, with barelty over half of its residents and 53 percent of its households going onlinwein 2007. Nationwide, 64 percent of Americans 18 and olderr reported using the Internetin 2007, up from just 22 percenr a decade earlier. The bureaju did not provide 1997 figuredsby state. The report showed that 62 percentr ofthe nation's households reported usinv the Internet at home in 2007, an 18 percent increasw from 1997.
Among households using the Netin 2007, 82 percen reported using a high-spee d connection, and 17 percent used a dial-up “As access to high speed connections have becomed more prevalent, so too have the number of peoplew that connect to the Internet at said Thom File, a statistician with the Censuxs Bureau Housing and Householed Economic Statistics Division. “These data give us a better understandin of who is using the Internet andfrom where.” Internert usage also varied by educationm and race. For individualsd 25 and older witha bachelor’zs degree, 87 percent reported going online from some location in 2007.
Abouty half (49 percent) of those with only a high schoool diploma reported usingthe Internet, compared with 19 percent for thoswe without a high school diploma. 69 percent of whites lived in households withInternet use. The same was true for 51 percenytof African-Americans, 73 percent of Asians and 48 percent of The percentage of 18- to 34-year-olds who accessed the Internet was more than doublew (73 percent) that of people 65 and olde (35 percent).
Among children 3 to 17, 56 percent used the