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Q: Cell Phone Adoption Rate ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   3 Comments )
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Subject: Cell Phone Adoption Rate
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: hi42-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 15 May 2003 07:04 PDT
Expires: 14 Jun 2003 07:04 PDT
Question ID: 204084
What proportion of the poverty population have adopted, or use cell
phones as compared to the non-poverty population?  In the USA. 
Poverty and cell phone use can be operationalized any way that gets at
this question.  I'm looking for an answer, using the most recent data
(time frame, no earlier than 2002) something like "one out of five
individuals below the poverty line regularly use cell phone technology
compared to 2 out of 3 of those above the line measured by . . .  " 
Trend information would also help, such as "From 1999 to 2002, the gap
has been closing by . . . "

Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 15 May 2003 08:16 PDT
Hello HI42,

I have located the percent of households with cell phones by household income. 

For example:
__% of households earning less than $15,000 have cell phones
__% of households earning more than $15,000 and less than 30,000 have cell phones

This is based on information from a 2001 Survey that was released in November 2002.

Would this information suit you needs?

Thanks
Bobbie7-ga

Clarification of Question by hi42-ga on 15 May 2003 10:11 PDT
Yes, if the array of percentages goes beyond the two levels in your
example - to something like "Y income and above."
Answer  
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Adoption Rate
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 15 May 2003 10:39 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello hi42-ga,
 
Thank you for kindly requesting that I post my findings as an answer
to your question.
 

The data I located is part of the survey ”Effect of Income on
Appliances in U.S. Households.”


Description of this survey:

“Viewing how people live in the United States shows that the factors,
which cause the most differences in home lifestyle, including energy
use are: geographic location, socioeconomics, and household income.
EIA looks at the relationships of these factors to home appliance
ownership, based on information from the 2001 Residential Energy
Consumption Survey.” -- Released November 26, 2002

Household income can affect the number and cost-related attributes and
types of appliances, like televisions, that most households have.

Cell phones are more commonplace as household income increases. As
income increases, percent of households with cell phones increases
from 23 percent to 82 percent.


===============================================================
Percent of housing units having cell phones by household income 
===============================================================
% of households        Income
with cell phones 
===============================================================
23%                    less than $15,000 
38%                    $15,000 – $29,999
54%                    $30,000 – $49,999
71%                    $50,000 – $74,999
82%                    $75,000 or more
===============================================================

Source: Energy Information Administration, 2001 Residential Energy
Consumption Survey
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/appliances/appliances.html


Search Criteria:
Cell phone ownership by income bracket
Cell phone percent by income


I hope this information help you in your research. If anything is
unclear please request clarification and I'll be glad to offer further
assistance before you rate my answer and close the question.


Best regards,
Bobbie7-ga
hi42-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $10.00
Just what I was looking for, and in a source I overlooked.  Great job.
 I highly recommend this Google researcher

Comments  
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Adoption Rate
From: leader-ga on 15 May 2003 08:14 PDT
 
"The cell phone consumer is affluent with 71 percent owning their own
home. In addition they are 26 percent more likely than the average
adult to have a household income of $75,000+".
Source: Scarborough Research
http://www.scarborough.com/scarb2002/press/pr_cellphone.htm
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Adoption Rate
From: neilzero-ga on 15 May 2003 09:20 PDT
 
The prepaid cell phone service at attractive per minute rates that
have resently become available are attracting poverty users who often
have had their traditional phone disconnected because they did not pay
their phone bill. The number of poverty users could double in 2003 if
the low per minute rates persist in the prepaid market. Generally
poverty families are refused cell phone contracts of other types as
most poverty person have poor to awful credit ratings. Often these
prepaid cell phones are temporaerilly inoperative, as the poverty
person does not have money to buy more minutes.  Neil
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Adoption Rate
From: bobbie7-ga on 15 May 2003 11:48 PDT
 
Hi42-ga,

Thank you for your kind words and generous tip!
I'm glad to have helped.

--Bobbie7-ga

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