A poll recently conducted in the US by the research house Harris Interactive finds that 80 per cent of all adult US citizens are now regular users of the Internet.
The survey, conducted in June and last month, finds that some 200 million adult Americans, that's about 80.2 per cent of the US population, spend an average of 11 hours a week online.
Back in 2000, when the last fully comprehensive Web usership survey was conducted, 57 per cent of US adults accessed the Internet for an average of three hours a day. A smaller survey held in 2006 concluded that 77 per cent of US adults access the Internet regularly.
Harris Interactive first began tracking online Internet use among US adults in 1995, and at that time a mere nine per cent of the population – at that time the equivalent of 17.5 million people - were regular surfers.
The Harris poll shows that US adults are spending more and more time online, both at home and at work. Since 2006 Internet access during working hours is up two per cent at 72 per cent while domestic Internet usage is also up by two per cent at 37 per cent. respectively, from 2006.
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