How May Months/Years on the Internet
Notes:
- Overall, 60.3% of the users have been on the Internet less than 1 year,
with 27.7% being on for less than 6 months. This large porportion of new
users is indicative of the wider acceptance and use of the Internet and
the World Wide Web by the general population.
- Compared to the Third Survey, where 26.9% reported having been on the
Internet for 1 to 3 years, only 11.9% reported this for the Fourth Survey.
Additionally, the percentage of users who have been on the Internet more
than 4 years increased from 23.1% for the Third to 27.9%, indicating that
the traditional Internet users are still present and active.
By Location
Notes:
- The Weekend users tend to be newer users than their Weekday counterparts,
though not by much (30.4% Weekend vs 27.0% Weekday). This diminishes the
notion that Weekend Internet users are composed primarily of very
recent newcomers.
By Access Time
Notes:
- The recent adoption of the Internet by women is evident in that
over a third have used the Internet for less than 6 months (36.8%
female vs 23.9% male). A similar spike was observed in the Third
Survey (39.5% females with under 6 months) as well as the time lagged
dependency that this former spike caused - 29.3% of the women reported
being on the Internet between 6 and 12 months compared to 18.6% for
the Third Survey.
- Men are twice as likely to have been on the Internet more than
7 years than females (8.0% men vs 4.0% women). This intuitively makes
sense as the Internet was primarily used in the late 1980's by
computer scientists and other traditionally male dominated fields.
By Gender
Table of Data for All Categories
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send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu.
GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280