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rural areas, rural and central city minorities, young and old, the less-educated in 
central cities, and people in the northeast central cities and the South.




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National Telecommunications and Information Administration (1998, August).  Falling
Through the Net II:  New Data on the Digital Divide, U.S. Department of Commerce. 
This survey updated the results of the 1995 report by NTIA using similar data 
compiled by U.S. Census Bureau in October, 1997.  The data demonstrate that, 
as a nation, Americans have increasingly embraced the Information Age through 
electronic access in their homes.  However, despite this significant growth in 
computer ownership and usage overall, the growth has occurred to a greater 
extent within some income levels, demographic groups, and geographic area, 
than in others.  In fact, the digital divide between certain groups of Americans 
has increased between 1994 and 1997 so that there is now an even greater 
disparity in penetration levels among some groups.  There is a widening gap, for 
example, between those at upper and lower income levels.  Also, even though all 
racial groups own more computers than they did in 1994, Blacks and Hispanics 
lag even further behind Whites in their levels of PC-ownership and on-line 
access.


National Telecommunications and Information Administration (1999).  Falling Through
the Net:  Defining the Digital Divide.  A Report on the Telecommunications and
Information Technology Gap in America.  Revised.  U.S. Department of Commerce
Research/Technical Report.

This report provides comprehensive data on the level of access by Americans to 
telephones, computers, and the Internet.  It also provides information about 
where Americans are gaining access and what they are doing with their online 
connections.  While access to the Internet has soared for people in all 
demographic groups, the digital divide persists between the information rich and
the information poor, who include younger people, those with lower incomes and 
education levels, certain minorities, and those in rural areas and central cities.


	

	
		
			
				
					
						




						
							
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