January 05, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Most likely to be online: 14- to 17-year-oldsÂ
Among young people 12 to 23 years old, those in the 14-to-17 age group were most likely to use the Internet in 1998. Over half of 14- to 17-year-olds accessed the Internet that year.
![Internet use among 12- to 23-year-olds, 1998](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921205155im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2001/jan/wk1/art04.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Among 14- to 15-year-olds, 51 percent used the Internet in 1998, while for 16- to 17-year-olds, the percentage was about the
same—52 percent. For others between 12 and 23, Internet use ranged from 42 percent of those in the 22-to-23 age group to 48 percent of those in the 18-to-19 age group.
These data are from a December 1998 supplement to the Current
Population Survey. See "Internet
use: Here, there, and everywhere,"
by Terry Schau, Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Winter 2000-01, for
more information.
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