Variance by Employment Status

Location of usage varies significantly in several respects by employment status [Table 5d].

• At 93 per cent, those few retirees who use the Internet are the most likely to report recent usage from home and are the least likely to report usage from all other locations; a narrow 2 per cent indicate they used the Internet from a public access site recently. 6 per cent of retirees used the Internet from a location other than those identified (i.e., elsewhere).
• Internet users employed full-time are less likely to report recent usage at home (81 per cent) and are significantly more likely to report recent workplace usage (64 per cent).
• While the most likely to report recent usage at school, students remain more likely to use the Internet at home (86 per cent) than at school (64 per cent) in the past three months.

Variance by Employment Type

There is little variation in home usage by type of employment with more than four in five employed users reporting recent home usage regardless of type of employment. There is significant variation in usage between the remaining peripheral locations [Table 5d].

• There is no statistically significant variation in recent home usage by type of employment.
• Slightly more than one in two Internet users employed in professional and management positions report recent workplace usage (53 per cent and 57 per cent, respectively. By comparison, fewer than one in 20 (3 per cent) of labours have used the Internet at work in the past three months.
• Labourers have the highest incidence of recent public access site usage at 16 per cent.