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Digital Equality and the Uptake of Digital Applications among Seniors of Different Age

Nordicom Review

Volume 38 (2017): Issue s1 (June 2017)

By: Annika Bergström

Open Access

|Jun 2017

Figures & Tables

General use of the Internet in age groups and national average (per cent several times a week)

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
60–64 years	8	17	16	28	31	31	40	48	49	56	59	65	70	71	81	84	79	84
65–69 years	6	0	14	14	13	20	29	32	26	45	53	56	65	70	74	72	69	78
70–74 years	0	4	2	14	9	10	14	22	23	23	22	42	49	46	54	69	67	73
75–79 years	0	3	3	3	13	8	11	3	8	8	20	31	40	48	50	51	46	53
80–85 years	0	4	3	3	4	9	11	4	9	4	8	19	11	23	15	24	25	33
Average, 16–85 years	22	29	36	40	41	48	51	51	57	60	65	72	73	74	77	80	79	82
n=	196	199	211	214	201	215	226	213	222	240	237	360	369	360	513	518	580	686

Use of e-mail, news services, information search, online banking and social network sites, linear regression analyses, 2015 (standardised Beta)

	E-mail	News services	Information search	Online banking	Social network sites
Sex (female=1, male=2)	0.05 ^***	0.11 ^***	0.07 ^***	0.12 ^***	–0.11 ^***
Age (60–85)	–0.26 ^***	–0.19 ^***	–0.30 ^***	–0.24 ^***	–0.21 ^***
Birth cohort	0.00	0.06	–0.01	0.00	0.00
Education	0.40 ^***	0.26 ^***	0.35 ^***	0.27 ^***	0.12 ^***
Work position	–0.04 ^*	–0.05 ^***	–0.06 ^***	–0.07 ^***	–0.02
Household composition	0.08 ^***	0.06 ^***	0.09 ^***	0.07 ^***	0.04 ^*
Social habits	0.08 ^***	0.08 ^***	0.11 ^***	0.07 ^***	0.05 ^*
Adjusted R2	0.22	0.19	0.29	0.20	0.09

Linear regression analyses (60 to 85 years old), 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 (standardised Beta)

	2000	2005	2010	2015
Sex (female=1, male=2)	0.18 ^***	0.11 ^***	0.06 ^**	0.04 ^*
Age (60–85)	–0.43 ^***	–0.25 ^***	–0.38 ^***	–0.31 ^***
Birth cohort	–0.21 ^**	0.15 ^**	–0.05	0.02
Education	0.30 ^***	0.33 ^***	0.36 ^***	0.18 ^***
Work position	–0.07 ^*	–0.05	–0.03	0.20 ^***
Household composition	0.04	0.06 ^*	0.10 ^***	0.13 ^***
Social habits	–0.02	–0.01	0.02	0.06 ^***
Adjusted R²	0.21	0.33	0.31	0.28

Use of e-mail, online news services, information search, online banking and social media networks in different age groups, 2005–2015 (per cent at least once a week)

	Age	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
E-mail	60–64	58	48	54	51	61	74	60	77	75	77	71
	65–69	36	38	46	53	60	60	61	69	68	69	72
	70–74	36	27	21	25	43	40	49	56	54	58	71
	75–79	6	8	9	17	24	41	40	22	46	42	50
	80–85	9	9	9	7	20	8	19	13	16	19	25
News services	60–64	23	37	39	34	50	52	47	58	63	72	63
	65–69	27	21	30	33	38	30	36	50	56	59	61
	70–74	20	17	18	10	24	22	39	34	43	47	62
	75–79	6	8	3	17	12	26	23	20	37	31	44
	80–85	0	0	0	7	13	6	15	3	16	19	29
Information search	60–64	54	46	50	46	59	65	66	77	81	77	84
	65–69	32	30	41	48	48	59	60	69	68	76	71
	70–74	39	27	26	22	32	37	44	52	62	62	72
	75–79	3	8	6	17	22	24	38	20	40	41	46
	80–85	4	4	4	14	18	8	19	14	12	23	33
Online banking	60–64	31	17	20	26	31	35	21	46	39	46	34
	65–69	12	10	31	46	30	32	23	40	37	43	37
	70–74	14	18	24	10	12	23	28	27	40	36	40
	75–79	5	6	11	11	0	18	22	7	27	20	25
	80–85	0	9	8	0	7	4	14	10	0	6	15
Social network sites	60–64	-	-	-	-	14	21	20	33	40	46	43
	65–69	-	-	-	-	9	18	18	21	30	30	39
	70–74	-	-	-	-	3	3	15	10	24	32	39
	75–79	-	-	-	-	0	8	11	2	16	19	29
	80–85	-	-	-	-	3	0	6	4	5	11	10
N 60–85=		213	228	242	243	368	379	374	520	532	597	686

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0398 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108

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Language: English

Page range: 79 - 91

Published on: Jun 27, 2017

Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

senior citizens,

digital divide,

longitudinal surveys

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Communication science,

Mass communication,

Public and political communication

© 2017 Annika Bergström, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
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