3. Internet Usage
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- Internet use graph.Source:CSO information Society and Communication reports, 2004-200
Ireland’s silver surfers are growing in number and, as a key demographic group, showed the greatest increase in Internet usage between 2004 and 2007.
At 18%, the over 56-year-olds have some distance to go on 16- to 24-year-olds, where Internet usage was at almost 70%. Even so, that 18% compares with a meagre 7% in 2004.
The same CSO report shows regional disparities, with Internet usage over seven percentage points higher (56.8%) in the Southern and Eastern region compared with 49.6% in the Border, Midland and Western region.
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