GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey General Graphs

Who Pays for Access

Notes:

For this question, respondents could choose more than one answer. The same proportion of respondents report paying for their own Internet access as in the Sixth Survey (65.04% Seventh vs. 66.62% Sixth ). The trend prior to the Sixth though was one of increasing self-payment for Internet services (57.7% Fifth vs. 51.0% Fourth). This is followed by having it paid for by work (Seventh: 32.78%, Sixth: 28.76%). This supports the notion that Internet access is becoming a personal resource and not a heavily governmental and educational subsidized resource. Compared to respondents from the US, European users typically have their access to the Internet paid for by work (46.98% Europe vs. 32.00% US) rather than by themselves (47.50% Europe vs. 66.94% US). Older users are more likely to pay for access themselves (83.10%) and the 19-25 yr. old segment is more likely to have school pay for access (38.32%).

Table of Data for All Categories

Who Pays for Access	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
Don t Know	107.00 0.55%	58.00 0.43%	49.00 0.80%	76.00 0.48%	9.00 0.67%	17.00 0.46%	44.00 0.37%	9.00 0.37%
Other	648.00 3.31%	369.00 2.74%	279.00 4.55%	467.00 2.98%	75.00 5.60%	147.00 3.95%	322.00 2.74%	66.00 2.75%
Parents	1010.00 5.16%	663.00 4.93%	347.00 5.66%	719.00 4.59%	75.00 5.60%	313.00 8.40%	51.00 0.43%	3.00 0.12%
School	2612.00 13.34%	1743.00 12.96%	869.00 14.18%	2120.00 13.52%	213.00 15.91%	1427.00 38.32%	710.00 6.05%	69.00 2.87%
Self	12736.00 65.04%	9036.00 67.16%	3700.00 60.37%	10494.00 66.94%	636.00 47.50%	1749.00 46.97%	8279.00 70.54%	1996.00 83.10%
Work	6419.00 32.78%	4493.00 33.40%	1926.00 31.42%	5017.00 32.00%	629.00 46.98%	1183.00 31.77%	4537.00 38.66%	433.00 18.03%

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