Disability and the Digital Divide

Americans with disabilities are less than half as likely as their
non-disabled counterparts to own a computer, and they are about one-quarter
as likely to use the Internet. These are the conclusions of a new report1 on
computer ownership and Internet use among people with disabilities, based on
December 1998 data from the Current Population Survey, a nationally
representative sample of U.S. households. For the purpose of this analysis,
disability is defined in terms of a limitation in the ability to work: those
respondents reported to have a "health problem or disability which prevents
them from working or which limits the amount or kind of work they can do" are
counted as having disabilities. The statistics presented in this abstract
apply to the population 15 years of age or older. 

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