[Air-l] Help needed about statistics

[Monika Merkes]

You can find Australian Census 2001 data on Internet use at the website of
the Australian Bureau of Statistics at http://www.abs.gov.au/
During the week prior to the 2001 Census:

  a.. 7.88 million Australians used a computer at home
  b.. 6.97 million Australians used the Internet
  c.. of those who made a statement about their computer use: 43.7% used a
computer at home (of these, 51.1% were male and 48.9% were female)
  d.. of the people who answered the question about their Internet use,
38.85% used the Internet (51.4% male, 48.6% female)
  e.. nearly half of all households (48.6% or 3,436,287 households) used a
personal computer at home
  f.. over one third of all households (36.1% or 2,550,051 households)
reported using the Internet at home

Monika Merkes
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~monika

----- Original Message -----
From: "mdiazdeisla" <mdiazdeisla at uoc.edu>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: [Air-l] Help needed about statistics


> Hi dear colleagues,
>
> I am preparing an article on internet penetration. I have been looking for
> some data because I am interested in getting the percentage of households
> connected to the Internet over the total of households and the percentage
> of households with a broadband connection over the total of households. I
> would like to get the statistics from one source, because otherwise
> comparison among different sources is not very accurate.
> The countries in which I am interested in are Korea, USA, Hong King,
> Singapur, Taiwan, China, New Zealand, Norway, Australia.
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Mª Isabel Diaz de Isla
> IN3-UOC