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50% of Hispanic Adults Now are Online
7/25/2001 | 
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(Washington) Half of Hispanic adults use the Internet and email, according to a survey by the Pew
Internet & American Life Project. The online Hispanic population grew 25% over a period of twelve
months, as young people, women, and those from modest income households flocked online.
The ongoing survey work of the Pew Internet Project shows that Hispanics are enthusiastic users of
the Internet. Some 78% say they go online at least three-to-five times a week and 61% of Hispanics
with Internet access are online on a typical day.
Hispanic Internet users enjoy using email to sustain and enrich relationships and they find the
Internet a valuable source of information for things like news, financial data, product information,
and trip planning.
Compared to online whites, Hispanics with Internet access are more likely to have browsed the Web
for fun, listened to music online, downloaded music, played online games, looked for information
about books and movies, and sampled audio and video clips.
Hispanics have also gone online for more serious purposes: 61% have done school-research or job
training; 51% have sought health and medical information; 50% have conducted work-related research;
41% have done job hunting; 28% have browsed for new places to live.
“This is a very engaged group of Internet users,” says Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet
Project. “And its online pursuits are very mainstream.”
When money is involved, online Hispanics are not quite as likely as whites to have made online
purchases or participated in auctions. But they are just as likely to have performed online banking
and online stock trading.
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