8146.0 - Household Use of Information Technology, Australia, 2006-07  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 20/12/2007   
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PURPOSE OF INTERNET USE

In 2006-07, personal or private related purposes continued to dominate as the most common purpose of Internet use at home across all age groups, representing 98% of an estimated 9.9 million people using the Internet at home. Educational or study purposes was the next most common response (53%), followed by Work or business related purposes (52%) and voluntary or community purposes (12%). While the use of Internet for personal and voluntary purposes has remained largely unchanged from 2004-05, the proportion of people using Internet for study and work related purposes registered an increase by 4 and 3 percentage points respectively.

figure 3.6: internet use at home, by purpose-2005-06 and 2006-07
Graph: Internet use at home, by purpose2004-05 and 2005-06



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