The Statistical
Service announces the results of the annual survey ‘Information and Communication
Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals 2013’. The data were collected with personal interviews and ιt covered all the government
controlled areas of the Republic of Cyprus. The
reference period of the survey was the first quarter of 2013. The survey covered 1.664 households and 3.663 individuals aged 16 – 74
years old.
The main results of the survey are the following:
a) The percentage of
households with access to a computer increases to 70,3% in 2013 compared to 69,7%
in 2012. The percentage of households with access to a desktop computer
decreased to 27,3% compared to 28,8% in 2012 while the percentage of households
with access to a laptop computer remain stable to 62,0% compared to 62,4% in 2012.
It is worth mentioning that 18,7% of households have access to a tablet
computer.
b) A computer is found in 91,1%
of households with dependent children, while in households where there are no
dependent children the percentage is only 60,7%.
c) During 2013 the internet
access in households continues to increase and reaches 64,7% compared to 61,8%
in 2012. At the same time, an increase was observed in the individuals that
used the internet, from 60,7% in 2012 to 65,5% in 2013.
d) The broadband connection
has become the main type of internet connection since it is used by almost all
households (99,5%). 10,5% of the households with internet access have mobile connection
to the internet (via handset/ broadband card/ USB).
e) Individuals aged 16 – 24 years old (94,7%) and
students (99,0%) are the more frequent internet users. This
percentage decrease with age since only 16,4% of individuals aged 65 – 74 years
old use the internet. Men
are using the internet more frequently than women with percentage 63,3%
and 60,3% respectively.
f) The most popular internet
activities are finding information about goods or services, and sending/receiving
e-mails (85,7% and 74,7% of internet users respectively).
g) 67,7% of internet users
are participating in social networks like facebook, twitter etc.
h)
19,8 % of persons made online orders for goods and services in the first three
months of 2013. More than half of them order clothes
and sports goods (53,4%) and 49,8% order travel arrangements (tickets, hotel,
car hire etc.).
i)
Almost all the persons that used the internet, used a search engine to find
information (95,2%), while 72,3% sent e-mails with attached files (documents,
pictures, etc.) and 59,8% used the internet to make telephone calls.
The results of the survey are available on the website of the
Statistical Service at http://www.cystat.gov.cy under the Statistical Theme
‘Science and Technology / Information Society’.
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11 December, 2013
