Table 1.
Sociodemographic data of the sample in comparison with the German Internet population (2012).
| Variable and categories | Total N=958 |
German Internet usersa
N=58,556,000 |
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| Gender, n (%) |
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Male | 517 (54.0) | 29,553,000 (51.81) |
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Female | 441 (46.0) | 27,492,000 (48.20) |
| Age (years; range 18-70 years), mean (SD) | 43.73 (13.0) | >10 | |
| Age categories (years), n (%) |
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<44 years | 471 (49.2) | 32,896,000 (57.60) |
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45-70 years | 487 (50.8) | 24,147,000 (42.34) |
| Education, n (%) b |
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52,589,000b | |
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Without school qualification | 4 (0.4) |
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Secondary general school | 13 (1.4) | 9,487,000 (18.04)c |
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Polytechnic secondary school | 120 (12.5) |
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Intermediate secondary school | 269 (28.1) | 29,467,000 (56.03)d |
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Matura examination or higher | 545 (57.0) | 13,635,000 (25.93)e |
| Monthly household net income (€), n (%) | 347 (100) |
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<1500 | 77 (22.2) |
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1500-2500 | 97 (28.0) |
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2501-3500 | 94 (27.1) |
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3501-4500 | 53 (15.3) |
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>4500 | 26 (7.5) |
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a Rounded to 1000 people. Projected number of Germans who used the Internet in the last 3 months. Age limit for questions concerning education and occupation: 16 years.
b For the German Internet users, low education corresponded with levels 0, 1, and 2 of the ISCED classification system (up to secondary general school), medium education corresponded with levels 3 and 4 of the ISCED classification system (up to university entrance qualification), and high education corresponded with levels 5 and 6 of the ISCED classification system (higher than matura examination respectively university entrance qualification).
c Low education.
d Medium education.
e High education.