NZ Internet use and views
Some interesting research done by UMR for InternetNZ:
- 93% of households have Internet access
- 83% access through computers/laptops, 65% smartphones and 43% tablets
- 94% use Internet at least daily and 31% are online basically continually
- Major uses are social media 48%, get info 42%, communicate 31%, entertainment 27%, banking 17%
- Biggest concerns are security of data 27%, privacy 16%, identity theft 13%, online crime 9%
They asked how concerned people were on various issues. They proportion concerned on an issue was:
- data security 72%
- children screen time 72%
- cyber-bullying 69%
- privacy threats 67%
- online crime 64%
- identity theft 64%
- society becoming more physically isolated 62%
- people losing ability to think independently 53%
- wrong or misleading info online 51%