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That's according to a report released Wednesday bythe , whicy also shows that 62 percent of the nation'd households report using the Interner at home in 2007, an 18 percenyt increase from 1997. Among households usingg the netin 2007, 82 percent reportesd using a high-speed connection, and 17 percent used a dial-ulp connection. “As access to high speed connections have becomdemore prevalent, so too have the number of people that connecf to the Internet at home,” said Thom File, a statisticiab with the Census Bureau Housing and Household Economic Statistic s Division. “These data give us a better understandingy of who is using the Interne t andfrom where.
” Among the New Hampshire had the highest rate of Internet use for thosde age three and older in 2007 at 82 Mississippi and West Virginia had the lowest rates of use at about 52 California's rate 69 percent, just abovd the national average of 67.1 percent. Interneft usage also varied by educatiohnand race. For individuals 25 and older witha bachelor’s degree, 87 percenft reported going online from some location in 2007. About half (49 percent) of those with only a high schoop diploma reported using the compared with 19 percent for those withoug a highschool diploma. Meanwhile, 69 percent of whitess lived in households withInternet use.
The same was true for 51 percengtof blacks, 73 percenr of Asians and 48 percent of Hispanics.