The swine flu outbreak has put the Centers for Disease Control in the news lately, but in addition to monitoring outbreaks of infectious diseases, the CDC also conducts the National Health Interview Survey, which tries to keep up with demographic trends and gather data that typically isn’t picked up in by the every-decade efforts of the Census Bureau. And the results of a new CDC survey highlight just how much mobile technology is shaping U.S. households: according to the CDC, one in five U.S. households now rely entirely on cell phones and have no landlines…and, for the first time, the number of cell-only households outnumbers the number of homes relying solely on landline phone service.
