Nielsen Report, Percentage of households least prepared for Digital Conversion, USA, June 2009

The nation makes a switch from anlog to digital TV today. Nielsen has released a list that shows percent of households by TV market areas that will not receive the new DTV signal!

According to one report nearly 2.8 million households will be affected by this switch.

The data was scraped from a jpg image of the list released by Nielsen and then geocoded using DMA shapefiles.

This section shows information about this dataset's attributes
Attributes Range Median Mean Std. Dev.
TV market Text column (no statistics available)
TV market
DMA
  to 
DMA
Percent housholds ready
 
72.62  to  92.50
81.79 81.97 4.88
Percent households completely ready for digital conversion
PartReady
 
4.93  to  22.17
12.40 12.63 3.92
Percent households partially ready for switch to digital
Percent households not ready for digital conversion
 
1.76  to  12.24
5.18 5.40 2.28
Percent households not ready for digital conversion