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People Going Online With a Mobile Phone · U.S.
Share of U.S. residents who use a mobile phone to go online, %
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NTIA Internet Use Survey (Census Bureau Current Population Survey supplement), about every two years. Measures going online with a phone, not phone ownership.
How the phone became the way most Americans get online, from the federal government's own survey, counting children from age three.
What this chart reads
- Adults Going Online With a Mobile Phone · U.S. (NTIA, 15+)as “Ages fifteen and over”latest 2023-11-01
- People Going Online With a Mobile Phone · U.S. (NTIA, Ages 3+)as “Ages three and over”latest 2023-11-01
Sources
Adults Going Online With a Mobile Phone · U.S. (NTIA, 15+). Source: NTIA Internet Use Survey Data Explorer (variable mobilePhoneUser, universe isAdult), ntia-analyze-table.csv at https://www.ntia.gov/data/explorer, from the Census Bureau Current Population Survey Computer and Internet Use Supplement. A U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. §105). NTIA does not endorse any product or service. Refreshed monthly by ntia-sync; every edition is rewritten so revisions land.
People Going Online With a Mobile Phone · U.S. (NTIA, Ages 3+). Source: NTIA Internet Use Survey Data Explorer (variable mobilePhoneUser, universe isPerson), ntia-analyze-table.csv at https://www.ntia.gov/data/explorer, from the Census Bureau Current Population Survey Computer and Internet Use Supplement. A U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. §105). NTIA does not endorse any product or service. Refreshed monthly by ntia-sync; every edition is rewritten so revisions land.
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