- Author: American Institutes for Research
Latinos and African Americans take more time to complete their graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields, according to a new study from the American Institutes for Research.
This trend is affected by whether they had a master’s degree, funding for their program, marital status and the educational attainment of their parents. The study looked at data from 1990 to 2009 and excluded international students, tracking data for U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
According to the study, when it came to doctoral students without a master’s degree,...
- Posted By: Myriam Grajales-Hall
- Written by: eMarketer
Like for many newer devices, young, affluent college graduates are the overall heaviest users of tablets and ereaders. But when device ownership is broken down by race and ethnicity, the results go beyond the typical early adopter profile. Hispanics skew higher than black or white consumers in ownership of both types of device.
Pew Internet and American Life Project surveyed US consumers and found that, broken down into those three groups, more Hispanics were early adopters of tablets. In November 2010, 7 percent of Hispanics owned tablets, compared with 4 percent of blacks or whites. Just six months later, the percentage of usage among all three...
- Posted By: Myriam Grajales-Hall
- Written by: MediaPost Blogs by Mark Walsh.
Tablets may have more glamour -- but e-readers are proving more popular so far this year, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The number of U.S. adults owning an e-reader has doubled from 6 percent to 12 percent between November 2010 and May 2011, while tablet penetration during that period has increased only from 5 percent to 8 percent.
And despite the release of scores of new tablet models in 2011, tablet ownership since January has only inched up from 7 percent to 8 percent.
- Author: Myriam Grajales-Hall
Latinos are less likely than whites to access the internet, have a home broadband connection or own a cell phone, according to survey findings from the Pew Hispanic Center. Latinos lag behind blacks in home broadband access but have similar rates of internet and cell phone use.
While about two-thirds of Latino (65 percent) and black (66 percent) adults went online in 2010, more than three-fourths (77 percent) of white adults did so. In terms of broadband use at home, there is a large gap between Latinos (45 percent) and whites (65 percent), and the rate among blacks (52 percent) is somewhat higher than that of Latinos. Fully 85 percent...
