ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, August 3, 1996 TAG: 9608050003
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C1 EDITION: METRO
Virginia Tech's Center for Survey Research polled 1,168 adult Virginians between April 21-May 22. The margin of error is 2.9 percent. Numbers may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.
WIRED FOR SOUND (AND SIGHTS)
You name it, we've got it. Most Virginians are fully plugged in to the electronic age. During the past five years, the percentage of Virginians who own various electronic gizmos has steadily grown. The biggest jump has come in the number of homes that have compact disc players and computers.
Percentage of Virginians who have . . .
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 cable TV: - 65% 69% 70% 74% telephone answering machine at home: 55% 56% 60% 66% 71% more than one TV set at home: 75% 79% a video tape player (VCR): 83% 83% 90% compact disc player at home: 44% 64% a computer in your home: 37% 36% 42% 46% 50%
--- Wasn't asked in survey that year.
Virginians in the urban crescent are generally more likely than their counterparts in the rest of the state to own these gizmos, but not by much. The biggest gap comes on computers, but even there, 42 percent of those who live outside the urban crescent say they've now got a computer at home.
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