NEW YORK (AP) -- Hispanics trust and value the Internet more thanother online users, and they tend to stay connected longer while athome, a new study finds.
Yet Hispanics still lag other populations in Internet access,according to the UCLA Center for Communication Policy. It found 59percent of Hispanics were online, compared with 72 percent foreveryone else combined.
Hispanics and non-Hispanics were online about the same number ofhours each week. But at home, Hispanic users spend an average 9.8hours a week online, compared with 8.1 for non-Hispanics.
Jeff Cole, director of the UCLA center, attributes the gap toHispanics having less access at work.
Meanwhile, 63 percent of Hispanic users trust the accuracy of mostor all information online, compared with 52 percent in other groups.Seventy-five percent of Hispanic users say the Internet is a "very"or "extremely" important information source, compared with 60 percentfor non-Hispanics.
"There aren't as many other channels of information for Latinos,"Cole said.
The random, phone-based survey of 2,014 people, including 240Hispanics, has a margin of error of 4 percentage points for thequestions on Hispanics. Interviews were conducted in Spanish andEnglish.
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