IBGE presents PNAD results on internet and cell phones

Percentage of low-income population accessing the internet grows

 

Between 2005 and 2011, the population aged 10 years and over grew by 9.7%, while the number of people in this age group who used the internet increased by 143.8% and that of those who had a cell phone for personal use grew by 107, 2%. This is what the results of the supplement “Access to the Internet and Possession of a Mobile Cell Phone for Personal Use” of the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) 2011, published by IBGE – Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, show.

 

In 2011, 77.7 million people aged 10 or over (46.5% of the total) had accessed the internet in the three months prior to the PNAD collection. Internet access continued to be higher among young people, especially in the 15 to 17 year olds (74.1%) and 18 or 19 year olds (71.8%).

 

In the analysis of Internet users' schooling, it was observed that, from 2005 to 2011, in the group without education and with less than four years of study, the percentage increased from 2.5% to 11.8%. In the same period, in the group with 15 or more years of study, the estimate increased from 76.1% to 90.2%.

 

In the historical series, the percentage of Internet users increased in all per capita household monthly income classes, especially in the lowest: in the group with no income and with up to ¼ of the minimum wage, the percentage of people who accessed the internet increased by 3.8% , in 2005, to 21.4%, in 2011; in the group of more than ¼ to half of the minimum wage, it went from 7.8% to 30%, in the group of ½ to one salary, from 15.8% to 39.5%. In all the years surveyed, the percentage of internet users was higher in the income class of three to five minimum wages, even surpassing the class of five or more minimum wages.

 

In 2011, 115.4 million people aged 10 or over (69.1%) had a cell phone for personal use (against 55.7 million, or 36.6% of the total in this age group, in 2005).

 

The percentage of women who owned a cell phone for personal use surpassed that of men for the first time in 2011: 69.5% of women (60.3 million) had the device, against 68.7% of men (55.2 million).

 

The results of the 2011 PNAD supplement “Access to the Internet and Possession of a Cellular Mobile Phone for Personal Use” can be accessed at the link www.ibge.gov.br.