Pew Internet: Use of digital technology by different income groups

Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

An overview of Pew Internet's recent national survey data, presented by Lee Rainie at a Capitol Hill conference in February. Check out the "under $30,000" numbers:

• 73% are Internet users (slide 2), but
• only  59% use email compared to 80%+ in all higher categories (slide 15), and
• only 47% have broadband at home compared to 70%+ in all higher categories (slide 3).
• 85% have cell phones but only 30% have smartphones (slides 4 and 5).

Interesting job search numbers starting with slide 10.

(The median household income in the city of Cleveland was $27,470 in 2011, according to the U.S. Census American Community Survey.)