1377.0 - Measures of a Knowledge-based Economy and Society, Australia, 2003  
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CHARACTERISTIC: HOUSEHOLD AND INDIVIDUAL USE OF ICT

INDICATOR: Proportion of households with access to a mobile phone by type of household, income and broad region

The prevalence of use of mobile phones was evident in 1998 when 44% of Australian households had access to some type of mobile phone. That use has continued to grow, with 72% of households having access to a mobile phone in 2002.

HOUSEHOLDS WITH ACCESS TO A MOBILE PHONE(a)
1998
2000
2002
%
%
%
Households
Without children aged under 15
40
55
66
With children aged under 15
54
75
86
Household income
$0–$24,999
17
30
44
$25,000–$49,999
44
62
74
$50,000–$74,999
61
76
88
$75,000–$99,999
69
83
92
$100,000 or more
83
90
95
Not stated/don't know
54
68
76

Region
Metropolitan areas
49
66
76
Ex–metropolitan areas
37
54
66

Total
r44
61
72
(a) Proportions are of all households in each category.
r revised
Source: ABS Household Use of Information Technology, Australia (cat. no. 8146.0).


STATISTICAL NOTES

Household data are from the ABS Household Use of Information Technology Survey. Up to 2000 data was collected as part of the ABS Population Survey Monitor (PSM) in 2001 as part of the Survey of Education, Training and Information Technology (SETIT) and in 2002 as part of the General Social Survey (GSS).

Mobile phone
A personal telephone which operates by battery from any location within range of receiving from a relay station, sometimes called a cellular mobile phone. They should not be confused with a car phone or cordless phone. A digital mobile phone (GSM) specifies that the phone relies on a digital operating system. An analogue mobile phone refers to a mobile phone connected to an analogue network (although the analogue network has been phased out, services were still available in areas outside major cities until the end of 2000). A CDMA mobile phone (Code Division Multiple Access) operates on the CDMA digital network.

Household
A household is defined as a group of one or more persons in a private dwelling who consider themselves to be separate from other persons in the dwelling, and who make regular provisions to take meals separately from those other persons. Lodgers who receive accommodation and meals are not treated as separate households. A household may consist of any number of family and non-family members.

Metropolitan
Metropolitan refers to capital city statistical divisions. These delimit an area which is stable for general statistical purposes. The boundary is defined to contain anticipated development of the city for a period of 20 years. They contain more than just the urban centre, and represent the city in the wider sense.



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