{"id":496,"date":"2009-03-11T17:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2009-03-11T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:20:24","slug":"wireless-only-phone-use-varies-widely-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/03\/11\/496\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless-only phone use varies widely by state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">A new study released today by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reveals that Oklahoma is leading the nation\u2019s wireless-only movement, with more than one in four households (26.2%) in that state using only wireless phones in 2007. On the other end of the spectrum, only 5.1% of households in Vermont were wireless-only in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">The new report, \u201cWireless Substitution: State-level Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-December 2007,\u201d is the latest release on wireless substitution from NCHS, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report shows the percentage of adults who use only wireless phones is also highest in Oklahoma (25.1%) and lowest in Delaware (4.0%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">NCHS tracks wireless-only phone use to assess potential implications for data collection from health surveys and other research conducted using random-digit-dialing methods on landline phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">For more click <a title=\"Link to wireless-only phone use by state PDF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released today by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reveals that Oklahoma is leading the nation\u2019s wireless-only movement, with more than one in four households (26.2%) in that state using only wireless phones in 2007. On the other end of the spectrum, only 5.1% of households in Vermont were wireless-only in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53763],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}