{"id":35429,"date":"2011-04-23T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35429"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:35:12","slug":"wireless-and-landline-only-households-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/23\/wireless-and-landline-only-households-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless- and Landline-Only Households in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

A new publication from the CDC<\/a>, sent along by sociology professor\u00a0Sangyoub\u00a0Park, reports that only 13% of households in the U.S. are still cell phone-free; meanwhile, 27% of households have now abandoned their landline telephone altogether. \u00a0The data, however, varies pretty tremendously by state. \u00a0Rhode Island and New Jersey have the lowest proportion of wireless-only households at 13%, while Arkansas leads with 35%:<\/p>\n

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For more detail, here are the states in order:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Park wondered if part of what was driving the state-by-state difference was levels of poverty. \u00a0Perhaps poorer families can’t afford both a landline and a cell phone and so they drop the former. \u00a0A rough comparison of the data with rates of poverty in various states is suggestive (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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So that’s interesting. \u00a0But why does the CDC care? \u00a0One way to collect survey data is to get a random selection of Americans (or some subset) through random digit dialings. These, however, tend to exclude cell phones. \u00a0So the technological change is creating a methodological challenge. \u00a0Now scholars using random digit dialing have to consider how the exclusion of 27% of households with cell phones only skews their data, perhaps by disproportionately excluding the poor. \u00a0It’s a much more difficult case to make than when such methods excluded only the 2% of households with no phone service at all.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new publication from the CDC, sent along by sociology professor\u00a0Sangyoub\u00a0Park, reports that only 13% of households in the U.S. are still cell phone-free; meanwhile, 27% of households have now abandoned their landline telephone altogether. \u00a0The data, however, varies pretty tremendously by state. \u00a0Rhode Island and New Jersey have the lowest proportion of wireless-only households […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,274,290],"class_list":["post-35429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35429"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58914,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35429\/revisions\/58914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}