A Closer Look at Indiana’s Digital Equity: Mobile-Only

In Indiana, 9.1 percent of survey respondents only had smartphone devices, compared to 86.4 percent with smartphones and at least one other device. Less than 5 percent of respondents either did not have devices or had devices other than smartphones. Demographically speaking, the majority of smartphone-only survey respondents were urban, less educated, lower income, younger, and white non-Hispanic. Furthermore, the share of these smartphone-only respondents was on average lower compared to the overall sample when it comes to benefits of using the internet and confidence in specific online tasks—which supports previous research that found that smartphone-only users do not leverage the internet to its fullest extent.