Latinos, Reading and the Web

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Latinos, Reading and the Web

Literanista January 7, 2010

Interesting stats:
Among Latinos, English-reading ability was linked with internet use — 81% of Latinos who read English very well were online, as compared with 63% of Latinos who read pretty well, 52% of Latinos who don’t read English well, and 24% of Latinos who can’t read English at all.Conversely, Spanish-reading ability was not associated with internet use at all among Latinos. from pewresearch.org

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