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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 . . . " | |
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Re: Cell Phone Adoption Rate
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 15 May 2003 10:39 PDT Rated: ![]() |
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:![]() Just what I was looking for, and in a source I overlooked. Great job. I highly recommend this Google researcher |
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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 |
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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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