'Survey on the Computer and Internet Usage' conducted by NIDA(National
Internet Development Agency of Korea) in December 2005 shows
that 47.9% of preschoolers aged 3 to 5 use the Internet, and
64.3% of kids aged 5 use the Internet at least more than once
within the last month(44.6% for the aged 4, 33.5% for the aged
3). This survey adopts the current situation which users start
to use the Internet at their very younger ages, and it is conducted
to expand the sample size newly including aged 3 to 5 about
their Internet usage.
As of December 2005, 72.8%(33.01 millions) of those who are
aged 6 and older use the wired or wireless Internet more than
once within the last month (±0.61% sampling error, 95% confidential
level). Those have increased by 2.6%p and 1.43 millions of people
respectively from the previous year.
For the Internet use rate by gender, 78.5% of all males (17.78
millions) and 67.2% of all females (15.23 millions) use the
Internet, which shows that the use rate of males is higher than
that of females by 11.3p%. However, the divide in the component
ratio of Internet users by gender has slightly narrowed.
For the Internet use rate by age, Internet use rate among aged
6 to 19 is 97.8%, followed by 97.9% for 20's, 91% for 30's,
which shows that more than 90% of those aged 30's and younger
use the Internet. The Internet use rates of aged 40's and 50's
are 68.7% and 35.7% respectively which have increased substantially
by 6.2%p and 4.6%p from the previous year.
For the Internet use rate by occupations, Internet use rate
of students is the highest with 99.1%, followed by 93.8% for
white-collars and 94.2% for professional/managers. For the rate
by educational attainment, the use rate of university graduates
is the highest with 94.5%. However, Internet use rates have
dramatically grown among high school graduate (73.4% which increase
6.4%p from the previous year), junior-high school graduates
(29.4% which increase 4.4%p from the previous year) and elementary
school graduates (18.8% which increase 5.8%p from the previous
year) those who have relatively low use rates.
For the major timeline using the Internet, workers mainly use
it during office hours (31.2% from 15 to 16 o'clock) and after
works (27.8% from 21 to 22 o'clock). Students use it mainly
in the evening from 21 to 22 o'clock (32.9%). For main reasons
for using the Internet, users access to the Internet mainly
for an e-mail/ chatting room and for research/information (86.9%
respectively), followed by entertainment (78.7%), blog/homepage(48.2%),
shopping/reservation(48.1%) and financial transactions(37.2%).
In the aspect of communication on the Internet, 90.0% of Internet
users have e-mail accounts (1.6 accounts on average) and 45.2%
of them use the messenger service(7.4 hours on average). Moreover,
46.5% of Internet users have used blogs or Minihompy sties before,
and 37.1% of Internet users have their own blogs or Minihompies.
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