{"id":800,"date":"2005-02-27T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=800"},"modified":"2005-02-27T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T22:59:42","slug":"statistics-canada-internet-usage-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada: Internet Usage in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Internet Use in Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.ca\/english\/freepub\/56F0003XIE\/index.htm\">Internet Use in Canada<\/a> is a 2003 report that shows that 64% of Canadian households had someone using the Internet regularly. There is a wealth of material linking out from the report, see the links at the end of the report and to the side for details. Some of the interesting statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Households with children are more likely to have access to the Internet. (See <a title=\"Canadian Statistics - Characteristics of household Internet users, by location of access\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.ca\/english\/Pgdb\/comm10a.htm\">Characteristics of household Internet users, by location of access<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Another interesting result is that the reading materials are the most popular type of item that people buy. Books, magazines and newspapers were bought by 30% of e-commerce households. Could there be a correlation between Internet use and reading?<\/li>\n<li>Playing games has gone from 12.3% in 1999 to 27.9% in 2003. <a title=\"Canadian Statistics - Household Internet use at home by Internet activity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.ca\/english\/Pgdb\/comm09a.htm\">Household Internet use at home by Internet activity<\/a> outlines what Canadians use the Internet for, from e-mail (52.1% in 2003) to listening to the radio (13.1% in 2003).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a list of the different tables around internet use see, <a title=\"Culture, leisure and travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.ca\/english\/Pgdb\/cultur.htm#int\">Canadian Statistics: The People: Culture, leisure and travel<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nStatistics Canada also has longer reports like <a title=\"Highlights - Canada's journey to an information society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.ca\/english\/freepub\/56-508-XIE\/highlights.htm\">Highlights &#8211; Canada&#8217;s journey to an information society<\/a> which is in PDF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Use in Canada is a 2003 report that shows that 64% of Canadian households had someone using the Internet regularly. There is a wealth of material linking out from the report, see the links at the end of the report and to the side for details. Some of the interesting statistics: Households with children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statistics Canada: Internet Usage in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}