Number of Months/Years Using Internet

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Notes:

• Overall, 43.1% of respondents have been on the Internet for less than one year, which is down somewhat from the fourth survey, where 60.3% had been on for less than a year. Close to a quarter (23.6%) have been on for less than six months.

• 34.9% of respondents report having been on the Internet for 1 to 3 years -- the highest percentage ever reported in this range. This suggests that the flood of new Internet users seen over the past year is slowing somewhat.

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Notes:

• The continuing influx of females to the user population is illustrated by the fact that 56.6% of female respondents report being on the Internet for less than one year, and 34.0% for less than six months.

• Male are still more than twice as likely as females to have been using the Internet for more than 4 years (26.5% male, 12.1% female).

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Notes:

• Another group of users that is growing is those over age 50 with 34.1% having been on the Internet for less than 6 months.

• The largest group of 19-25 year olds have been online for 1 to 3 years (41.1%).

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Table of Data for All Categories

inet.years	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
1_to_3	4092 34.87%	2936 36.49%	1156 31.32%	3074 35.71%	468 36.85%	1124 41.08%	2331 33.53%	308 31.62%
4_to_6	1658 14.13%	1358 16.88%	300 8.13%	1235 14.35%	208 16.38%	575 21.02%	928 13.35%	72 7.39%
6_to_12	2292 19.53%	1458 18.12%	834 22.60%	1648 19.14%	261 20.55%	497 18.17%	1326 19.08%	212 21.77%
over_7	923 7.86%	776 9.65%	147 3.98%	727 8.44%	102 8.03%	117 4.28%	729 10.49%	50 5.13%
under6	2771 23.61%	1517 18.86%	1254 33.97%	1925 22.36%	231 18.19%	423 15.46%	1637 23.55%	332 34.09%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280