National Survey for Wales, January-March 2012: Internet Results

The bulletin presents the Internet results collected in the National Survey for Wales from January to March 2012.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 70% of households had access to the internet.  This equates to approximately 77% of people aged 18 or over having access to the internet at home.
• Around three quarters of privately rented and owner occupied households had internet access compared with just over half of those in social housing.
• 73% of people said that they used the internet at home, work or elsewhere; this varied by age with a far greater proportion of people under 45 using the internet than those aged 45 and over.
• Internet users under 25 years old are more likely (41%) than internet users aged 65 and over (8%) to have accessed the internet at another person’s home in the last three months.
• Men were twice as likely to access the internet from their games console (12%) than women (5%).
• Of those who did not use the internet, 56% didn’t want to, and 35% didn’t need to use the internet. 19% stated that they did not have the skills.
• Of those who use the internet, 79% of people stated they had accessed government and public service websites within the last 12 months.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3035
E-mail: surveys@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

January 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)