The Digital Opportunity Gap Facing U.S. Children

Compared to their peers in households with annual
incomes over $75,000, children in households with
annual incomes less than $15,000 are:

• 1/2 as likely to have a computer at home;
• 1/3 as likely to have the Internet at home; and
• 1/7 as likely to have broadband at home.

Wendy Lazarus and Andrew Wainer with Laurie Lipper,Measuring Digital Opportunity for America’s Children: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here (Santa Monica, CA: The Children’s Partnership, June 2005): 26 (http://www.contentbank.org/DOMS). Data from U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Population Survey, Internet and Computer Use, Oct. 2003.