{"id":1816,"date":"2013-12-19T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T19:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2013-12-19T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T19:42:05","slug":"homes-with-only-wireless-telephones-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/12\/19\/1816\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes with only Wireless Telephones Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new reports on wireless telephones show that <span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">percentage of adults and children living in households that do not have a landline telephone but have at least one wireless telephone have gone up.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">The first <a title=\"Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January\u2013June 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/wireless201312.pdf\">report<\/a> shows <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:small\">preliminary results from the January\u2013June 2013 N<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small\">ational Health Interview Survey (NHIS)\u00a0on wireless telephones.\u00a0The report found that t<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small\">wo in every five American homes (39.4%) had only wireless telephones (also known as cellular telephones, cell phones, or mobile phones) during the first half of 2013\u2014an increase of 1.2 percentage points since the second half of 2012. In addition, nearly one of every six American homes (15.7%) received all or almost all calls on wireless telephones despite also having a landline telephone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second <a title=\"Wireless Substitution: State-level Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr070.pdf\">report<\/a> shows state-level estimates from the 2012 NHIS on wireless telephones.\u00a0 This report found t<span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">he prevalence of wireless-only adults and children varied substantially across states. State-level estimates for 2012 ranged from 19.4% (New Jersey) to 52.3% (Idaho) of adults and from 20.6% (New Jersey) to 63.4% (Mississippi) of children. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new reports on wireless telephones show that percentage of adults and children living in households that do not have a landline telephone but have at least one wireless telephone have gone up.\u00a0 The first report shows preliminary results from the January\u2013June 2013 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)\u00a0on wireless telephones.\u00a0The report found that two in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63812,63814],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}