Hours Per Week of "Fun" Computing

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Notes:

• Nearly 42% of respondents spend under 5 hours per week doing fun computing; 27.6% spend for 6-10 hours per week and 28.9% spend 11 to 50 hours per week. Although this distribution has not changed dramatically since the fourth survey, there is slight trend toward respondents spending less time having fun with their computers.

• Approximately half of European users (49.7%) claim to use their computers for fun for 1-5 hours per week, compared 35.8% of US users. Conversely, twice as many US users claim to use their computers for fun for 21-30 hours per week (8.1% US, 3.5% Europe).

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Notes:

• For casual computer fun (i.e. less than 20 hours per week), females seem to spend less time than their male counterparts. For intense computer fun (i.e. more than 20 hours per week) there are no differences between the amount of time spent by males and females.

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Notes:

• Both the oldest users and the youngest users spend more time on fun computing than those in the middle age range.

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Table of Data for All Categories

fun	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
11_to_20	2146 18.29%	1582 19.66%	564 15.28%	1698 19.72%	143 11.26%	522 19.08%	1227 17.65%	194 19.92%
1_to_5	4493 38.28%	2851 35.44%	1642 44.49%	3081 35.79%	631 49.69%	987 36.07%	2763 39.75%	341 35.01%
21_to_30	875 7.46%	629 7.82%	246 6.66%	699 8.12%	45 3.54%	237 8.66%	470 6.76%	71 7.29%
31_to_40	263 2.24%	187 2.32%	76 2.06%	207 2.40%	19 1.50%	73 2.67%	128 1.84%	26 2.67%
41_to_50	103 0.88%	75 0.93%	28 0.76%	88 1.02%	3 0.24%	26 0.95%	56 0.81%	9 0.92%
6_to_10	3240 27.61%	2274 28.27%	966 26.17%	2435 28.28%	327 25.75%	774 28.29%	1941 27.92%	261 26.80%
none	418 3.56%	295 3.67%	123 3.33%	250 2.90%	93 7.32%	64 2.34%	274 3.94%	58 5.95%
over_50	198 1.69%	152 1.89%	46 1.25%	151 1.75%	9 0.71%	53 1.94%	92 1.32%	14 1.44%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
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