statistics2004to2005

TIME MAGAZINE 12th June 2006 published more of their enigmatic stats:
9	million British men downloaded pornography from the Internet, last year.
1.4	million British women -ditto-
	Our assumptions
Population of the UK	60,000,000
Lifespan	72	years
so born PER YEAR	833,333
50% are male and 50% female	50%	50%

Men who downloaded images in 2005	9,000,000	1,400,000	Women who downloaded images in 2005
Males born per year	416,667	416,667	Females born per year
	AGE	AGE
Interested in sex with access to Internet from	14	14	Interested in sex with access to Internet from
to	80	54	to
years	66	40	years

Adult sexual males	27,500,000	16,666,667	Adult sexual females
Males with private/home access to the internet?	33%	20%	Women with private/home access to the internet?
Men with private access	9,075,000	3,333,333	Women with private access
Use pornography	100%	42%	Use pornography
	UK	UK

UK On-Line – Richard `Adams in the Guardian – 22 May 06

These statistics were published by Technology Guardian on the 15th September 2005.

ITEM	THEN	NOW
E-Bay	In 2000 there were £43 million of transactions.	Forecast for 2005 is £4 billion or 93 times more.


Digital TV	In 2000 15% of homes had digital TV	In 2005 61.9% have digital TV
Hours shopping		1 of every 5 hours shopping is now on the Internet

Video Games 56% of users are aged from 24 to 44	In 1996 £350M of videogames were sold in the UK	In 2004 £1.2 billion of Videogames were sold. 3.5 times more than in 1996.

Mobile Phones	2000 There were 40 million UK customers	2004 There were 60 million, or most of the population.
Broadband Connections	2001 1.4M	2004 6.2M (about 1/3^rd of households)

Digital Cameras	2001 935,000 UK customers	2006 forecast 5,964,348

EU teleworkers 1999-2005 - Empirica – 8 March 06

Werner B Korte, Director of Empirica, Bonn, presented the following statistics at a conference in Helsinki in September 2001. (Transcribed by SW2000)

	Teleworkers as % of total workforce 1999 2005
%		FIN		NL		SW		DK		D		UK		EU10		IRL		I		E		F
35
30
25			29		25		24
20		17							19
15				15		15		11			13		12		11
10										6		8		6			8		7
5																4		4			5		5
0																				3		3
0

		Regular and supplementary teleworkers as % of workforce - as presented in 2001
		R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S
%		10.8	6.0	8.3	6.3	8.0	7.2	6.6	3.9	4.4	1.6	4.8	2.8	4.1	2.0	1.9	2.6	2.9	0.7	2.3	0.6	2.0	0.8

UK teleworkers 2005 – 8 March 06

Extract from a BBC report 6 Oct 2005, which errs on (1) SW2000 Telework Studies counted UK teleworkers in 1990 & 1992. The EC conducted and published several surveys from 1993-1995 (2) There was 8% of the workforce teleworking in 1997 – not 4% (3) This report relies on flimsy estimates in ‘Labour Market Trends’ which in turn was based on guesses not surveys. (4) No account has been taken of independent polls by Gallup and others (5) No correlation has been made with mobile-phone, mobile-computers and other mobile-tools statistics. (6) No base-line is indicated, of what was ‘fixed place’ working before the advent of telework. The realistic number of people teleworking in 2005, at home, in their vehicles, out of hotels, at customer’s offices etc is nearer the US figures (30%+) and can conservatively be estimated at more than 18% of the workforce, or about 4.3 million UK teleworkers.

Rising numbers

Teleworkers were first counted back in 1997.

Teleworkers graph

Then, just 921,000 people said they used telephones or computers to let them work at home or to use their homes as a base for work.

Of these, 737,000 said they couldn't in fact work like this without both a computer and phone.

But by early 2005 the number of teleworkers had shot up to 2,377,000.

And most - 2.1 million - said they depended on their digital technology to work from home.

As a result all teleworkers now make up 8% of the working population, up from 4% in 1997.

However, Alexandra Jones of the Work Foundation says: "It's not as big a rise as some people were once predicting during the hype of the dot-com boom."

US telework statistics 2005 – posted 27 Feb 06.

An extract, courtesy of ITAC. For the full report go to the ITAC site:

http://www.workingfromanywhere.org/news/pr100405.htm

Research conducted for ITAC by The Dieringer Research Group as part of Dieringer’s 2005 American Interactive Consumer Survey.

The national survey was conducted from August 15 – September 1, 2005. The survey asked respondents to check up to 13 different locations where they may have conducted work in the past month. The survey found that out of 135.4 million American workers:

45.1 million worked from home,
24.3 million people worked at client’s or customer’s place of business,
20.6 million in their car,
16.3 million while on vacation,
15.1 million at a park or outdoor location, and
7.8 million while on a train or airplane

Among the 45.1 million Americans working from home (33.3% - NB – This will include traditional non-computer working, usually simple, piece-work; addressing envelopes, wrapping gifts etc ), the average number of locations they work from is 3.4.

This survey demonstrates that millions of Americans are embracing telework – the ability to work from anywhere. Other terms relating to telework include telecommuting (work at home), virtual work and mobile work.

“The ability for people to work from anywhere is attributed in part to increasing availability of portable computer and high-speed communication technologies,“ said Robert Smith, Director of ITAC. “For example, the use of broadband in the home by teleworkers increased by over 60% during the past year resulting in 25.6 million home-based teleworkers with high speed access.”

UK & EU Houses - 4 Nov 2005.

The mobility of Teleworking and advanced telecoms has evened out price differentials between UK regions and the process continues. This will happen across the world. The Information Society is a powerful influence on the cost and value of our homes.
UK Housing Market - Source – TheGuardian Oct 31 2005. Compiled by Grundy Northedge
40 years increase 51 times. (Retail prices have risen x 13)	Average home price today £170,000	First time buyers pay £157,000	House Owning
			Spain	92%
Homes 2004	25,000,000		Greece	90%
New homes built 2003/04	190,067		Ireland	83%
			Italy	83%
Mortgaged homes for rent 2004	526,000		UK	77%
			Austria	71%
Total Value	£3,221,000,000	55% of national assets.	France	71%
Mortgage debt AUG 2005	£932,000,000		Netherlands	64%
			Germany	57%
			15 nation EU Average	74%

The Oxford Internet Survey May 2005. Extracts 17 Oct 2005.

UK Survey 2005. The Internet in Britain – The Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) May 2005. www.oii.ox.ac.uk - extracts by SW2000 Telework Studies. For the full report email oxis@oii.ac.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 1865 287229 free download from www.oii.ac.uk/research/ Oxford Internet Institute

Sample – 2005 – Random sample across UK. 3,426 homes visited. Interviewed first available resident over 14 years old. 2,190 productive interviews. Interviews by ICM.

INTERNET USERS	UK 2005.
Broadband at Home	59%
Internet at Home – persons	61%
Internet at Home - houses	36%
Internet via telephone	87%
Homes with computers	66%
Computer used daily at home	46%
Internet users with a mobile phone	85%
Internet users with email	92%
Made your own webpage? NO	82%
Written a computer programme NO	85%

INTERNET USES
Check E-Mail	92%
News, information, local events	66%
Health information	25%
Book and buy travel tickets	71%
Download – Music	54%	Downloads have soared since May 05.
Download – Video	33%	Onto Ipod and other MP3 players.
Download – Radio	33%
Look for facts/research	78%
Bank online	45%
Pay bills on line	39%
Invest on line	10%
Buy products on line	74%
WHY? - Wider choice of goods	54%
Lower prices	53%
Distance Learning (IDLE?)	21%
Used an E-Government Service YES	39%
In favour of E-voting	43%
News on-line – never printed YES	20%
Pay for news on-line YES	1%
Search by specific web address?	60%
Search by search engine query?	60%
Met new friends on-line? YES	20%
Computers important in daily life YES	63%
Is Internet a threat to privacy? YES	49%
BIG BROTHER
Who should control children’s access?
PARENTS	95%
GOVERNMENT	46%

Users with poor education	27%
Users with good education	83%
Males who use the internet	63%
Females who use the internet	57%
Pupils – school age - who use internet	97%
Retirees – (no job 55+) who use internet	30%
SEX
In this UK OxIS survey 13% access sex sites – but the UK survey below, 17^th May 05, Pornography on the Net, shows 87% of men and 56% of women have accessed sex sites – the survey concluded that sexual curiosity had been a significant motive for getting on-line. Maybe it’s the way the question is asked? Or, perhaps more likely, sex-sites occupy 13% of the total time on-line of 87% of men and 56% of women? Theories on a postcard please and emailed to OII.

Defining US Poverty – 81 million poor – 17 Oct 05.

USA	Family of 4	Family of 3	Single person
Poverty income	$19,307 a year	$15,067 a year	$9,645 a year

Below the Line	Detroit	33.6%
	El Paso	28.8%
	Miami	28.3%
	Newark	28.1%
	Atlanta	27.8%
	Long Beach	26.4%
	Milwaukee	26.0%
	Buffalo	25.9%
	Philadelphia	24.9%
	Memphis	24.6%	Population
		274.4	295,734,130
Simple Average		27.4%	81,031,151
Median US Household Income		$44,400 a year
Source – The Guardian – 17 Oct 2005.

GOOGLING MICROSOFT – 26^th August 05

“War” and a “battle” has been declared between Microsoft and Google – according to the media. Here are a few comparisons by Jason Rodrigues and journalists Owen Gibson and Richard Wray at the Guardian, UK.

	GOOGLE	MICROSOFT

Market Capitalisation	$78 billion
Market penetration Global		95%
Market penetration UK	60.0%	10%	MSN
Market penetration US	36.5%	15.5%	MSN
Company worth	$8.6 billion	$59.9 billion
Online advertising world $15B	$3.2 billion
Founders are worth	$20 billion	$46 billion	Bill Gates only
Staff worldwide	4,183	57,000

British Sex on the Net – Time Magazine – 12 June 06