The Bureau of Labor Statistics released data on computer and Internet use at work and on job search methods using the Internet. "Internet use at work" refers to either connecting to the Internet or using e-mail. The survey shows that more people use computers than access the Internet at work, meaning, I suppose, that not everyone has Internet access at work. Does that mean they don't use email? How do they function?
Government workers had an above-average likelihood of using a computer and the Internet on the job. The proportions of workers in the public sector that used a computer and the Internet were 69.1 and 56.0 percent, respectively. By comparison, the computer- and Internet-use rates for private-sector workers were 53.5 and 39.3 percent, respectively.
The higher rates for government workers is because more than half of all workers in the public sector hold management and professional jobs, which are characterized by very high rates of computer and Internet use. In contrast, the proportion of private-sector wage and salary workers employed as managers and professionals is much lower (30.9 percent).
Public sector workers are broken out as federal, state or local. The percent of state workers using a computers is higher (73.5) than that for federal (67.5) or local (67.2) workers. The only groups with a higher percentage of workers using computers are financial activities (82.4) and information (77.5) industries.
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