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To: Michael Pascoe who wrote (755)3/20/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: dzzhang  Read Replies (1) of 1195
 
Canadian Internet Use Doubles in Year, StatsCan Survey Shows

Ottawa, March 20 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Canadian
households using the Internet nearly doubled in 1997 from the
year before, according to a survey by Statistics Canada.

Some 13 percent of the country's 11.7 million households
were connected to the Internet last year, up from 7 percent in
1996, the federal statistics agency said.

More than half of all Canadian households with children
under the age of 18 are equipped with a home computer; about one
in six such homes has an Internet connection.

StatsCan said that income ''remains a driving factor in
computer ownership and Internet use in 1997'' as households with
the highest income were four times as likely to have a computer
as those with the lowest income.

Some 62 percent of the Canadian households located in the
top 20 percent of wage earners has a computer. That compares with
15 percent for those households located in the bottom fifth of
income, StatsCan said.

Separately, the survey showed the proportion of households
owning their own home climbed to more than 64 percent from less
than 62 percent 10 years earlier.
''Lower interest rates over the past several years may have
contributed to the higher home ownership rate,'' StatsCan said.
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