Table 1.

Demographics of the responders and comparison with the population of Internet users in Italy

Characteristic	Responders N = 27,540	Internet usersa
Gender
Females	75.6	47.6
Males	24.4	52.4
Age (years)
20–29	20.7	18.6
30–39	19.2	22.9
40–49	22.9	25.8
50–59	24.1	19.6
≥ 60	13.1	13.1
Education
Low	16.2	24.7
High school—Professional	47.1	50.2
University	33.1	22.2
Other	3.5	3.0
Geographical area
Northwest	35.6	26.7
Northeast	20.0	19.1
Center	17.0	20.0
South and the islands	27.5	34.2

Data are expressed as frequencies (N, %)

^aData from the Italian Institute of Statistics