Asian Americans Rank First in Internet Use

by | Apr 25, 2018 | Asian | 0 comments

 

Asian Americans Rank First in Internet Use

English-speaking Asians have flocked to the internet like no other group, according to a recent PEW report.

The popular narrative says that Euro Americans “lead in technology adoption while other racial or ethnic groups struggle to keep up,” says the analysis. However, the PEW study says English-speaking Asians are more adept in the new technology and exceeds the rest of the population, including Whites.

The PEW analysis qualifies it’s report by noting that they did not poll non-English-speaking Asian Americans. A 2012 PEW survey found that 63.5% of Asian Americans say they speak English “very well.”

It was suspected that Asian Americans had a larger presence relative to their numbers in the general populace .  But until now, there hasn’t been little hard data to support this thesis.

 

Not surprisingly, the next group in the categories were Whites, followed by African Americans and Latino Americans.

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Here are some of their findings for the English-speaking Asian Americans:

  • 95% use the Internet. It is not even close. In second place, only 87% of Euro Americans  use the Internet.
  • 84% have broadband at home. The gap here is even wider. Only 72% of Whites have broadband.
  • 91% own have a smart phone. 66% of Whites own a smart phone. When including less advanced mobile phones, Asian American usage jumped to 98%.

Researchers surmise that Asian
Americans’ tendency to have higher education and higher income contribute to higher use of high-tech devices.

Hopefully, the findings will convince PEW surveyors to include Asians in their other research about the Internet use and social media.

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It kind of reminds me of the surveys PEW did in 2011 that gave the education, incomes levels, education, religion, political preference, social attitudes of African Americans and Latinos. The research group skipped Asians because we were numerically too small to get accurate data.

As the Asian American community has grown  PEW research did a similar analysis of  Asian Americans resulting in the 2012 “The Rise of Asian Americans.”

It appears PEW has fallen into its old habits again. Several followup surveys released after this February 2016 report didn’t include Asian Americans.

Source: https://asamnews.com/2016/03/01/asian-americans-rank-first-in-internet-use/