GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey General Graphs

Who Pays For Access

Notes:

For this question, respondents could choose more than one answer. Even more respondents than last time report paying for their own Internet access (66.62% Sixth, 57.7% Fifth, 51.0% Fourth). This is followed by having it paid for by work (28.76%). Much of this increase was focused in the US markets, where personal access rose 19 percentage point in the past year to 69.68% in the Sixth Survey from 51.8% in the Fourth Survey. Additionally, educational access via school has dropped to 13.44% from 24.5% in the Fourth. This supports the notion that Internet access is becoming a personal resource and not a heavily governmental and educational subsidized resource. European users typically had their access to the Internet paid for by work (46.64% Europe vs 27.42% US) rather than by themselves (41.57% Europe vs 69.68% US).

Table of Data for All Categories

Who Pays for Access	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
Don t Know	74.00 0.51%	39.00 0.39%	35.00 0.76%	51.00 0.42%	6.00 0.66%	15.00 0.56%	31.00 0.36%	7.00 0.41%
Other	498.00 3.41%	301.00 3.01%	197.00 4.30%	331.00 2.74%	85.00 9.37%	128.00 4.79%	228.00 2.63%	42.00 2.44%
Parents	898.00 6.16%	547.00 5.47%	351.00 7.67%	714.00 5.92%	33.00 3.64%	225.00 8.41%	50.00 0.58%	4.00 0.23%
School	1960.00 13.44%	1188.00 11.87%	772.00 16.86%	1566.00 12.98%	158.00 17.42%	1017.00 38.03%	439.00 5.06%	53.00 3.08%
Self	9717.00 66.62%	6968.00 69.62%	2749.00 60.05%	8408.00 69.68%	377.00 41.57%	1293.00 48.35%	6472.00 74.55%	1459.00 84.73%
Work	4195.00 28.76%	2961.00 29.59%	1234.00 26.96%	3308.00 27.42%	423.00 46.64%	701.00 26.22%	3022.00 34.81%	309.00 17.94%

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