One fifth of Americans Have Never Used Email

Did you know that roughly one fifth of the US population has never used email and there are 20 million US households without Internet Access? This is the focus of an upcoming report titled National Technology Scan 2008 by Parks Associates.

“Nearly one out of three household heads has never used a computer to create a document” - John Barrett, director, research Parks Associates

As one would expect, age and education are the major factors with half of those who have never used email are over 65 and about 56 percent "had no schooling beyond high school," according to the report. Only seven percent of the 20 million "disconnected" users plan to get connected "within the next 12 months."



As I pointed in my earlier Internet Trends post, US Internet growth has declined over the recent years.