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That's according to a report released Wednesday bythe , whichy also shows that 62 percent of the nation'sd households report using the Internet at home in an 18 percent increase from 1997. Among householdx using the netin 2007, 82 percenr reported using a high-speed connection, and 17 percent used a dial-up connection. “As access to high speedx connections have become more so too have the number of people that connect to the Internet at saidThom File, a statistician with the Census Bureauy Housing and Household Economic Statisticzs Division. “These data give us a betterd understanding of who is usingt the Internet andfrom where.
” Among the states, New Hampshire had the highest rate of Interne use for those age 3 and older in 2007 at 82 Mississippi and West Virginia had the lowestf rates of use at aboutg 52 percent. California's rate of 69 percenr was just above the national averageof 67.1 Internet usage also varied by education and ethnicity. For individualxs 25 and older witha bachelor’s 87 percent reported going online from some locationh in 2007. About half (49 percent) of those with only a high schoo l diploma reported usingthe Internet, compared with 19 percentf for those without a high school diploma. 69 percent of whites lived in householdsw withInternet use.
The same was true for 51 percenftof blacks, 73 percentr of Asians and 48 percent of Hispanics.