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| Age differences in home computer availability and use | | Author(s) | Stephen J Cutler, Jon Hendricks, Amy Guyer |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 5, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp S271-S280 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Information technology ; Computers ; Usage [services] ; Accessibility ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data are drawn from the US Bureau of Census September 2001 Current Population Survey and its supplement, "Home computers and internet use in the United States". The authors used Multiple Classification Analysis to examine patterns of age differences in home computer use for the sample of 71,182, controlling for several measures of compositional variability (employment status, marital status, Hispanic origin and race, gender, family income, living arrangements, education, and number of disabilities). Even though home computer availability declines steadily with age, a portion of this zero-order relationship is due to composition effects, with their greatest impact occurring at the oldest ages. For those living in households where a computer is available, use also declines with age, but these age differences in computer use are less due to compositional differences. The lower rates of home computer availability and use exhibited by older people may be accounted for to some extent by compositional characteristics negatively associated with availability, and to a lesser extent, use of computers, although unmeasured attitudes, experience and support undoubtedly play a role. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406220 A |
| Classmark | UVB: 3O: QLD: 5CA: 3KB: 7T |
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