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5.1 Gender?
Gender in 4th WWW-Survey:
( N ~23000) Female: Male:
Average: 29.3% 70.7%
US: 32.5% 67.5%
Europe: 10.5% 89.5%
Gender in Nielsen/Commercenet survey - phone based:
(N ~4500) Female: Male:
Average: 34% 66%
Gender in Nielsen/Commercenet survey - WWW survey:
(N ~3200) Female: Male:
Average: 27% 63%
5.2 Age?
Age in 4th WWW-Survey:
(N ~23000)
Average: 32.7
US: 33.2
Europe: 29.7
Comment:
Looking at the differences in the statistic between
Europe and the US and the high percentage of Swiss participants the gender
and the age distribution seems not to be very different.5.3 With whom
are you living together?
5.4 How many hours per week do you use computers?
hours per week for work.
hours per week for spare time.
5.5 Is the Internet necessary for your profession/education?
5.6 Which of the following categories describes
best your primary occupation?
Question 5.6 4th WWW-Survey:
(N =452) (N ~23000)
Computer: 27.2% 29.1%
Educational: 31.8% 30.9%
Professional: 31.0% 19.9%
Management: 5.5% 10.2%
Other: 4.4% 9.8%
Comment:
There is a big difference between Professional, Management
and Other categories compared to the 4th WWW-Survey, but the Computer and
Educational part are approximately the same.
5.7 Please indicate the highest level of education
completed.
Question 5.7 4th WWW-Survey: Nielsen/CommerceNet
(N =443) (N ~23«000) (N ~23«000)
College Graduate,
Master Degree: 54.4% 55% 64% (WWW-Users)
Comment:
There is no big difference in the highest level of
education completed in the category.
College Graduate, Master Degree.
5.8 In which country do you live (country abbreviation
e.g. USA for United States of America)?
| Count
| Percent |
| CH | 274
| 60.75 |
| USA | 98
| 21.73 |
| D | 27
| 5.99 |
| CAN | 13
| 2.88 |
| UK | 7
| 1.55 |
| A | 6
| 1.33 |
| NL | 6
| 1.33 |
| SE | 4
| 0.89 |
| FR | 3
| 0.67 |
| IT | 2
| 0.44 |
| AU | 1
| 0.22 |
| DK | 1
| 0.22 |
| FL | 1
| 0.22 |
| IL | 1
| 0.22 |
| MEX | 1
| 0.22 |
| N | 1
| 0.22 |
| NO | 1
| 0.22 |
| NZ | 1
| 0.22 |
| RUS | 1
| 0.22 |
| SCO | 1
| 0.22 |
| SZ | 1
| 0.22 |
| 451
| 100.00 |
| Count | Percent |
| CH | 274
| 60.75 |
| USA | 98
| 21.73 |
| Other | 79
| 17.52 |
| 451
| 100.00 |
Comment:
There is a big difference to the two other surveys,
61% participants are from Switzerland. This is due to the distribution strategy.
5.9 Who pays for your Internet access (please
check all that apply)?
Pay-Parents 3.3%
Pay-Other: 5.7%
Pay-School: 31.7%
Pay-Me: 38.3%
Pay-Work: 46.5%
5.10 Do you buy Internet related books or magazines?
5.11 Do you consider for yourself the usage of
the Internet as an addiction or dependency?
Comment:
10.6% of the participants consider themselves as
addicted or dependent to the Internet ! In the Interference statistic we
will examine if there are any significant differences addicted or non-addicted
participants.
5.12 How would you look for help if you would
be addicted or dependent from the usage of the Internet?
IA-Selfhelpgroup: 7.7%
IA-Internet: 11.2%
IA-Treatement: 11.7%
IA-Other: 25.1%
IA-Not: 30.4%
IA-Social: 45.6%
5.13 How many persons do you know, who feel themselves
addicted or dependent from the usage of the Internet?
5.14 How did you find out about this questionnaire?
IRC: 0.4%
IASG: 0.7%
Other: 4.4%
Colleague: 14.1%
News: 22.0%
Email: 28.4%
Link: 36.8%
Comment:
The announcement in the IASG - group gave only three
respondents. One reason could be that there are a lot of journalist asking
for participation in articles which caused a lot of people to unsubscribe
the group, another reason is perhaps, that the group is about the people
themselves and not a research topic and also that people who have problems
with the Internet want probably not to engage a lot more in it.
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