Computer and Internet Use by Students in 2003. Statistical Analysis Report.

摘要

This report uses data from the Current Population Survey, October 2003 School Enrollment and Computer Use Supplement to examine the use of computers and the Internet by American children enrolled in nursery school and students in kindergarten through grade 12, age 3 and older. The report examines the overall rate of use (that is, the percentage of individuals in the population who are users), the ways in which students use the technologies, where the use occurs (home, school, and other locations), and the relationships of these aspects of computer and Internet use to demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as students' age and race/ethnicity and their parents' education and family income. All statistical comparisons in this report were tested for significance at the 95 percent confidence level (p<.05), and all reported differences are statistically significant and are five percentage points or larger, unless otherwise noted. This report confirms that patterns of computer and Internet use seen in previous research (DeBell and Chapman 2003) are observed in more recent data representing a different population than has been described previously.