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Survey on information technology usage in the household sector for 2017


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the number of households using the Internet in 2017 increased by 1,200 year-on-year to 168,800, accounting for 88.1% of the total households. Households using fibre optic broadband connection kept rising, up by 35.7% year-on-year to 105,700, which made up 62.6% of the total households using the Internet, and thus led to a decline of 30.8% in the number of households using fixed broadband connection (49,300).

Internet users aged 3 and above totalled 513,600, up by 2.7% year-on-year; the Internet penetration rate grew by 1.6 percentage points to 83.2%. The Internet penetration rate for the population aged 35-44 and 25-34 reached 97.6% and 97.4% respectively, up by 1.3 and 0.3 percentage points year-on-year. In addition, over 60% of the population aged 55 and above used the Internet (60.6%), an increase of 9.8 percentage points. As regards frequency of using the Internet, 94.4% of the Internet users were daily Internet users, up by 5.6 percentage points year-on-year.

Regarding purpose of using the Internet, most of the Internet users used the Internet for Communication (93.7%) and Online Entertainment (81.4%), up by 2.2 and 4.8 percentage points respectively year-on-year. The proportion for Searching for Information (53.2%) decreased by 8.1 percentage points; meanwhile, online shoppers rose by 16.0% to 87,900. Median spending on online shopping in the fourth quarter of 2017 held stable year-on-year, at MOP 1,000, in which median spending on Travel Services increased by 15.0% to MOP 5,750, spending on Clothing & Footwear, Handbags, etc. remained unchanged, while that on Electronic Products dropped by 9.1% to MOP 1,000.

Mobile phone users edged down by 0.1% year-on-year to 561,000; the mobile phone penetration rate was 90.9%, down by 0.8 percentage points. The proportion of Internet users using mobile phone to access the Internet (91.5%) decreased by 0.4 percentage points year-on-year.

Owing to the greater variety of functions available on mobile phones and other devices, the proportion of households having computer equipment fell by 2.1 percentage points year-on-year to 75.8%, with 145,100 households. The computer penetration rate for the population aged 3 and above decreased by 1.7 percentage points to 52.8%.

Survey on Information Technology Usage in the Household Sector for 2017 was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2017 through a supplementary questionnaire of the Employment Survey, to collect data on information technology usage among population aged 3 and above.



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