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| Summary of Findings |
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| Summary of SIP Student Survey 2001 |
| Overall Computer and Internet use among Secondary One students |
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96% of the students were computer users. |
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92% of the students were Internet users. |
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Internet users, on the average, had 2.8 years of online experience. |
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The top three online activities were information seeking, online entertainment, and online chat. |
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The main reasons for not using the Internet were the lack of computer or lack of a ·good enough computer·, lack of interest and lack of time. |
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Females were more likely to be light users and males tended to be heavy users. |
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Chinese users had the largest proportions of heavy Internet users. |
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More than two-thirds of the students from families with more than $7000 monthly income were heavy Internet users, while only around one third of the students from families with monthly income of $2000 or less. |
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Students whose fathers had a tertiary education were more likely to be heavy Internet users. However, Internet usage did not differ much with regards to mothers· education. |
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Internet usage was higher at home than in school. |
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Online transactions remained the least common Internet activity for students. |
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Close to 70% of the Internet users used English when using the Internet, while 20.5% used both English and Chinese. Other languages used online remained rare. |
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| Family, Social Interaction and Studies |
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Most Internet users reported no change in the amount of time spent in face-to-face interaction with their family members after they began using the Internet. |
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There was not much difference between heavy and light Internet users in terms of average times spent with families per week. |
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Internet usage did not seem to affect personal interaction with family as heavy users spent 18.4 hours per week socializing face-to-face with their family compared to 17.8 hours spent by light users and 11 hours spent by non-users. |
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Most Internet users did not use email to communicate with their families or relatives. |
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Most of the Internet users indicated that there was no change in their social interaction with their families after using the Internet. |
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Heavy users spent more time than light users socialising face-to-face with friends after school. |
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Most users indicated no change with their social contact groups after using the Internet. |
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Nearly two-thirds of the heavy Internet users indicated they often used emails to communicate with their friends while close of half of light users did so too. |
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Heavy users spent significantly more time on the Internet socialising with friends, family members and strangers than light users. |
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Most users indicated no impact on their study life after using the Internet. |
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Internet users scored higher than the non-users in terms of academic results. |
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There was no difference in the academic results between heavy and light users. |
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| Attitudes towards the Internet |
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Heavy users tended to feel more positive towards the Internet than light users. |
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A higher proportion of heavy users than light users felt that the Internet was important, useful, convenient and interesting. |
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More heavy users tended to think that the Internet helps student to study more effectively than light users. |
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Most Internet users remained neutral in attitude about Internet making people less sociable. |
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However, most users agreed that Internet increases people·s contact with others who share similar interests. |
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| Media Use |
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Heavy Internet users were heavy media consumers while light Internet users were light media consumers. |
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Overall, more heavy users felt that the Internet had decreased their time spent on television, radio and newspaper while the same percentage of heavy and light users felt that their time spent on the books and magazines remained the same. |
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Television scored the highest in terms of importance among all the media for general information, local and world news, and entertainment for both heavy and light Internet users. |
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Entertainment/arts was ranked the most popular category in online information search, followed by hobbies and sports. |
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Generally, more users reported visiting local websites than overseas websites in their information searches. |
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About half to two-third of the users said they had never seen violent content, hateful messages, or sexual content on the Internet. |
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