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| Summary of Findings |
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| Summary of SIP Student Survey 2000 |
| Overall Computer and Internet Usage among Secondary One students: |
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97.8% used a computer at home.
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82.5% were Internet users.
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Internet users, on the average, had 2 years of online experience.
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The top three activities, in terms of time spent, were online discussion or chat groups, entertainment purposes, and information searches. |
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Users used the Internet mostly at home, rather than at school. |
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Main reasons cited for not adopting the Internet included ·computer is not good enough·, and ·no time·. |
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The Internet was hardly used for online transactions. |
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A large proportion (67%) used only English while online. 21%, 6.8%, 2% of the users reported that they also used, respectively, Chinese, Malay and Tamil to communicate online. |
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Digital divide was present along the lines of housing type, parents· education, and family income. Internet users tended to live in bigger flats and private apartments, have parents who received tertiary education, and are from families with income of $4000 and above. |
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There was no drastic divide in terms of ethnicity, except that there was a higher percentage of Internet users among the Chinese (84.8%) than Indians (76.6%) and Malays (72.5%). Further analysis shows that the apparent divide between different ethnic groups is due to other socio-economic factors. |
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| Family, Social Interaction and Studies |
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The majority of the respondents reported that the Internet did not drastically alter their interaction time with their families and friends |
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A majority of the students reported that the Internet did not change the amount of face-to-face interaction with friends. |
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39.9% and 35% of the users reported an increase in their contact with, respectively, people who share their hobbies and people who share their worries and concerns. |
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Self-reports of most students showed that the Internet did not adversely affect their academic life, in terms of productivity, concentration and effectiveness. |
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Peer friendship networks seem to be the greatest influence on students· Internet adoption and usage patterns. |
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| Attitudes towards the Internet |
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Users and non-users had a slight difference in perception of the Internet. As expected, more Internet users thought that the Internet was useful and convenient. |
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80%-86% of the users also thought that the Internet was important and were interested in it, while only 62.6%-66.9% of non-users concurred. |
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In addition, more than 20% of non-users reported that they were unsure or undecided with regards to the importance, interest, and usefulness of the Internet. |
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| Information Sources |
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Almost half of the students reported that the Internet did not change their media consumption patterns. |
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Among the different media, students spent the most time watching television. This ranking, in terms of duration spent on each medium, was followed by using the Internet, listening to the radio, and reading the newspaper. |
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Student respondents also placed a premium on interpersonal sources. 77.8% of users and 72.4% of non-users reported interpersonal contacts as important sources of information. |
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Online information searches were mostly on entertainment and the arts, hobbies and sports. |
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Almost 80% and 70% of users reported that the Internet was an important information source for, respectively, entertainment and sports news. |
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Overall, the use of the Internet to obtain information on various goods and services was not popular. However, 42.1% and 38.5% users reported conducting online searches on, respectively, entertainment events, and books/Cds/Vcds/Dvds/records. |
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30.4% of the users reported that they had seen hateful messages on the Internet. Also, 39.5% and 26.8% of users reported that they had come across, respectively, violent and sexual content on the Internet. |
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Both local and foreign websites were popular, though they were used for different reasons. |
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