Home web access link to education

Educated people are more likely to have home internet access than those with no qualifications, according to official figures.

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) found that 93 per cent of adults aged under 70 who had a degree or equivalent qualification had internet access at home.

Conversely, more than half of people with no formal qualifications did not have an internet connection to their property, according to the figures.

Interestingly, there has been a significant increase in the proportion of people who did not have internet access at home, who stated they did not want it at all, leaping from three per cent in 2006 to 24 per cent in 2008.

Other findings in the ONS survey showed that men were twice as likely to access the web from a mobile device than women and that dial-up accounts for just 6.8 per cent of all internet connections in the UK.

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www.statistics.gov.uk