Mobile phone ownership |
86% (177) |
Basic cell phone |
20% (42) |
Smart phone |
66% (135) |
Features used on mobile phone (n = 206) |
Text messaging |
96% (169) |
Internet |
81% (143) |
Camera |
79% (139) |
Video |
64% (114) |
Email |
61% (107) |
Social media |
61% (108) |
Rate of text messaging (n = 206) |
Daily |
77% (137) |
>1/week |
11% (22) |
x1/week |
5% (10) |
x1/month |
2% (5) |
x1/few months |
3% (7) |
Never |
1% (24) |
Sending or receiving text messages (n = 206) |
Very much’ or ‘somewhat’ comfortable sending TM |
82% (169) |
Very much’ or ‘somewhat’ concerned about privacy of TM |
51% (105) |
Preferred mode of contact TM vs Phone call (n = 206) |
TM |
21% (44) |
Phone call |
39% (81) |
Either |
39% (81) |
TM payment plan (n = 206) |
Flat fee for unlimited TM |
83% (171) |
Flat fee for limited TM |
8% (17) |
Pay-per-TM |
4% (8) |
Smart phone applications (n = 135) |
65% (135) |
Entertainment (eg, music, video, youtube) |
45.92% (62) |
Games (eg, candy crush, casino, chess) |
34.81% (47) |
Social media (eg, facebook, instagram, twitter) |
25.2% (34) |
Communication (eg, viber, skype, whatsapp) |
10.37% (14) |
Maps/GPS (eg, metro map) |
8.15% (11) |
Financial (eg, banking, tax rabbit, Indeed, paypal) |
6.66% (9) |
Weather |
5.92% (8) |
Educational (eg, encyclopedia, lumosity) |
3.7% (5) |
News (eg, New York Times, CNN, local news) |
3.7% (5) |
Retail (eg, ebay, food) |
3.7% (5) |
Lifestyle (eg, tinder, happn) |
2.22% (3) |
Recovery applications (eg, AA or NA, cleantime counter) |
0.74% (1) |
Health applications (eg, WebMD) |
0.74% (1) |
Barriers to phone ownership, mean (SD) |
Phones owned in the last year |
3.3 (2.98) |
Phone numbers in the last year |
2.6 (2.36) |
Reasons for ≥1 phone(s) or phone number(s) in the last year (n = 158) |
Lost |
63% (99) |
Stolen |
27% (43) |
Hardware damage |
21% (33) |
Upgraded phone to a newer model |
11% (17) |
Sold for money |
7% (11) |
Cost |
6% (10) |
Given away (donated to family or friends) |
3% (5) |
Incarceration or arrest |
2% (3) |
Phone disconnected or off for more than a few hours in one day (n = 206) |
>1/day |
1% (2) |
Daily |
5% (11) |
>1/week |
4% (8) |
x1/week |
10% (21) |
x1/month |
14% (28) |
x1/few months |
19% (39) |
Never |
47% (97) |