Table I-1: Percent of Households with Telephones, by States: 1998

(Numbers in thousands.)

State

Total Households Surveyed

Percent with Telephones

90% Confidence Interval

 

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Minnesota

1,865

98.0

0.82*

HIGH

North Dakota

245

97.5

0.95*

 

Maryland

2,101

97.2

1.01*

 

Pennsylvania

4,589

96.7

0.61

 

Delaware

291

96.6

1.18*

 

Maine

517

96.5

1.14

 

Wisconsin

2,040

96.4

1.07

 

Missouri

2,199

96.2

1.13

 

Oregon

1,307

96.0

1.18

 

Iowa

1,162

96.0

1.15

 

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Ohio

4,481

95.8

0.71

MIDDLE

Nebraska

652

95.8

1.2

 

Alaska

215

95.7

1.27

 

New Hampshire

451

95.6

1.41

 

Washington

2,227

95.5

1.27

 

Massachusetts

2,398

95.5

0.90

 

Colorado

1,550

95.4

1.21

 

New York

6,974

95.1

0.57

 

Connecticut

1,252

95.1

1.44

 

California

11,782

95.1

0.53

 

New Jersey

2,933

95.1

0.85

 

Michigan

3,793

94.9

0.81

 

Vermont

240

94.8

1.44

 

Montana

351

94.7

1.27

 

Rhode Island

375

94.6

1.51

 

Utah

674

94.6

1.35

 

Kansas

1,052

94.5

1.33

 

Idaho

446

94.1

1.35

 

Wyoming

180

94.0

1.45

 

Indiana

2,338

93.9

1.37

 

Alabama

1,688

93.6

1.41

 

North Carolina

2,928

93.6

1.04

 

West Virginia

750

93.5

1.32

 

Tennessee

2,221

93.4

1.45

 

Hawaii

393

93.2

1.80

 

Nevada

665

93.1

1.54

 

Arizona

1,732

92.9

1.43

 

Kentucky

1,591

92.9

1.46

 

South Carolina

1,488

92.6

1.61

 

Virginia

2,629

92.3

1.49

 

Florida

6,012

92.3

0.80

 

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Illinois

4,507

91.8

0.96

LOW

Texas

7,302

91.6

0.84

 

Georgia

2,926

91.4

1.45

 

Louisiana

1,586

91.1

1.64

 

Washington, DC

235

91.0

1.76

 

South Dakota

280

91.0

1.67

 

Mississippi

1,078

90.3

1.71

 

Oklahoma

1,297

89.6

1.69$

 

Arkansas

1,026

88.7

1.80$

 

New Mexico

649

87.1

1.97$