05 Dec

Regional differences in mean of accessing the Internet

Based on data from the Armenian Media landscape report, here are the regional breakdowns of means of accessing the Internet in Armenia (in early 2011).

You can see that for the country as a whole, most Internet users are personal computer based – although mobile is not insignificant. In the capital, PC dominates, but for rural users, mobile is catching up to PC. And those mobile users are often NEW users.

In an upcoming study we discuss how much the way people access the Internet influences what they actually do once they’re online as well as the demographic differences between those that use a PC and those that use a mobile phone as their primary Internet access device.

This is the entire country.

This is Yerevan.

This is regional cities.

This is rural areas.

(All images by Janine Slaker)

 OF ALL ARMENIAN INTERNET USERS

Total

Yerevan

Regional city

Rural

N = 420

N = 215

N = 145

N = 60

Mobile Internet access

15%

10%

19%

28%

PC-based Internet access

71%

73%

77%

62%

Both mobile and
PC based Internet access

11%

17%

4%

10%

 OF ALL ARMENIANS

Total

Yerevan

Regional city

Rural

N = 1420

N = 504

N = 443

N = 473

No Internet access 70%

57%

67%

87%

Mobile Internet access

5%

4%

6%

4%

PC-based Internet access

22%

31%

25%

8%

Both mobile and
PC based Internet access

3%

7%

1%

1%