Children and adolescents are defined as school-aged children ages 6 to 17, plus those who were still in high school at ages 18 or 19. For this analysis, from the 1997 survey we extracted data on 23,026 children ages 6 to 17 plus 18 and 19 year-olds still attending high school, and from the 1998 survey, data on 23,337 children of similar ages. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Adminstration. For the NTIA report of the 1998 survey, see National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Although income is shown as annualized amounts, actual reports were weekly income summed for both parents, when both are present in the child's household.
Education is the maximum years of school completed by either parent living in the household.
University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Public Policy Center. In contrast, our analysis of the CPS survey found that, among children with a computer at home, those who also had the Internet had parents with more education and income, but parents who were not more likely to be Internet users at work. Differences in how work-based Internet use was measured may be responsible for these conflicting findings. More properly, the dichotomous dependent variables should be examined using logistic regression, but for comparability with the other dependent variables, the more traditional least squares procedure was employed for all.