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Summary of SIP Adult Panel Survey |
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Overall Computer and Internet Usage |
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The percentage
of computers users in the panel sample dropped
from 47.1% in 2000 to 41.4% in 2001. |
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The percentage of Internet
users in the panel sample dropped from 34.1%
in 2000 to 29.1% in 2001. |
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Overall Internet usage
time increased from 14.1 hours per week
in 2000 to 15.4 hours per week in 2001.
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Information seeking
was the most popular online activity in
both years. |
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Information seeking
and email took up most of the respondents·
online time. |
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More time was spent
online at home for entertainment alone than
any other activities in 2001. |
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Stayers, Resistants, Adopters and Quitters |
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Four types
of panel respondents were examined: stayers,
resistants, adopters and quitters. |
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A stayer is someone
who stayed on as an Internet user in both
years. |
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A resistant is someone
who remained as a non-user in both years.
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A quitter is someone
who used the Internet in 2000 but later
rejected it in 2001. |
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An adopter is someone
who did not use the Internet in 2000 but
did so in 2001. |
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22.6% of the panel respondents
were stayers, 59.4% were resistants, 11.5%
were quitters and 6.5% became adopters.
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Stayers tended to be
singles from the age group of 18-24. |
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Resistants tended to
be female of 25 years of age and older,
with ·O· level and below education,
living in 4-room flats with a household
income of $3,000 and below. |
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Quitters tended to be
married females of 34 years of age and below,
with ·O· level and below education.
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Adopters did not show
clear demographic characteristics. |
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Family Interaction |
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The adoption
of the Internet did not decrease the frequency
of the respondents· activities with
their families. |
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Compared to others,
adopters reported spending the same or even
more times per week on activities with their
families. |
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All types of panel respondents,
with the exception of stayers, reported
spent less time in socialising face-to-face
with their families by 2001. |
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There were no major
fluctuations in the family satisfaction
index between the two years. |
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Social Interaction |
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The majority
of stayers, adopters and quitters felt no
change in their interaction with friends
and their colleagues after using the Internet.
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Around 20% of both stayers
and adopters felt that they spent more time
with their friends after using the Internet.
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None of the quitters
felt that they spent more time with their
colleagues after using the Internet. |
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More stayers felt that
that they spent more time with their colleagues
after using the Internet in 2001 as compared
to 2000. |
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Perception of the Internet |
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Overall,
stayers and adopters tended to have a more
positive attitude towards the Internet in
terms of its importance, usefulness, interest,
convenience and ease of use. |
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In contrast, resistants
and quitters tend to have less positive
attitude towards the Internet after they
rejected the Internet. |
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Interestingly, quitters
felt more positive about the Internet as
an avenue for political empowerment as compared
to others. |
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Media Use |
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Television
was the number one medium in terms of usage
for all panel respondents. With the exception
of the adopters, the other panel respondents
reported spending more time watching television
in 2001. |
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Stayers and quitters
spent more time listening to radio in 2001
while the reverse is true for resistants
and adopters. |
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Besides adopters, the
rest of the respondents reported spending
more time reading newspaper in 2001. |
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The perception of stayers
and adopters of the Internet as an important
general information source increased slightly
in 2001, while the opposite happened in
the case of resistants and quitters. |
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All panel respondents
rated television higher in terms of importance
as general information source in the second
year of the study. |
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The perception of both
newspaper and radio as important general
information source remained constant. |
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The importance of interpersonal
sources for general information dropped
for all panel respondents in 2001. |
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