{"id":96426,"date":"2007-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2007\/03\/14\/latinos-offline\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:14:13","slug":"latinos-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2007\/03\/14\/latinos-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Latinos Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;latinos-who-do-not-go-online-are-likely-to-say-they-simply-do-not-have-access-to-the-internet&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"latinos-who-do-not-go-online-are-likely-to-say-they-simply-do-not-have-access-to-the-internet\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latinos who do not go online are likely to say they simply do not have access to the internet.<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty-four percent of Latino adults do not use the internet. The offline Latino population is characterized by lower educational attainment and a lower likelihood to speak English. Fully 69% of Hispanics who did not complete high school and 68% of Spanish-dominant Hispanics are offline. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of Latinos who do not go online, 53% say they simply do not have access. In addition, 18% of non-user Latino adults say they are not interested in going online, 10% say going online is too difficult or frustrating, 6% say it is too expensive to get access, and 5% say they are too busy or do not have the time to go online.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By comparison, in a telephone survey conducted in May-June 2005, just 30% of white adults said they did not use the internet. Of those, 30% said the main reason they did not go online is that they did not have access. Thirty-one percent of non-user white adults said they are not interested in going online, 7% said it is too difficult or frustrating, 5% said it is too expensive, and 3% said they are too busy or do not have the time to go online.[11.numoffset=&#8221;11&#8243; \u201cDigital Divisions\u201d (Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project, October 2005).]<\/p>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;six-in-ten-latino-adults-have-a-cell-phone-and-half-send-or-receive-text-messages&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"six-in-ten-latino-adults-have-a-cell-phone-and-half-send-or-receive-text-messages\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Six in ten Latino adults have a cell phone and half send or receive text messages.<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The communications revolution is not limited to the computer screen. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that Hispanics are more likely than non-Hispanics to consider the cell phone a necessity, rather than a luxury. Fully 59% of Hispanics consider them a necessity, compared with fewer than half of non-Hispanic whites (46%) and non-Hispanic blacks (46%).[12.numoffset=&#8221;12&#8243; \u201cLuxury or Necessity? Things We Can\u2019t Live Without: The List Has Grown in the Past Decade\u201d (Pew Research Center, December 2006).]<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Hispanics are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to own a cell phone. Fully 75% of non-Hispanic white adults have a cell phone and 31% of white cell phone users send and receive text messages on their phone.[13. \u201cCell Phone Use\u201d (Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project, April 2006).] By comparison, 59% of Latino adults have a cell phone and 49% of Latino cell phone users send and receive text messages on their phone. Looking at the numbers in a different way, 56% of Latino adults go online, 18% of Latino adults have a cell phone but do not go online, and 24% of Latino adults have neither a cell phone nor an internet connection.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cell phone ownership is associated with essentially the same demographic characteristics as internet usage. For example, cell phone use is markedly lower for Spanish-speakers: 42% have a mobile phone, compared with 75% of English-dominant Latinos. Native-born Latinos are more likely than foreign-born Latinos to use a cell phone \u2013 72% versus 50%. However, Latinos over age 60 are more likely to have a cell phone than an internet connection, which is also true in the non-Hispanic population.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Percent offline by key characteristics\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/media\/688EF323E69F4DACBB752ABD1AA41CD9.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/figure><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latinos who do not go online are likely to say they simply do not have access to the internet. Forty-four percent of Latino adults do not use the internet. The offline Latino population is characterized by lower educational attainment and a lower likelihood to speak English. 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