The survey was conducted over July 28-29, 2013
This online survey, conducted through The Express Tribune and Express Urdu websites aimed to capture a snapshot of the local internet user’s perspective.
Both English and Urdu sites and their social media accounts were used to promote the survey in order to capture a wider, more diverse audience.
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ONLINE SURVEY BASICS
• The survey was conducted over July 28-29, 2013.
• A total of 1,100 respondents filled out the survey.
• 18-25 year olds make up over half of total respondents.
• The survey highlighted a large gender disparity in respondents, with males dominating. This trend has been highlighted in the past; Pakistan’s Facebook audience was 70% male, 30% female in April 2013.
• The majority of respondents (94%) are from urban areas, led by Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad.
KEY FINDINGS
• Laptops are the most used device (81% of total respondents) to connect to the internet.
• Mobile phones (65% of total respondents used mobile to connect) outranked desktop computers (47% of total respondents) for accessing the internet.
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• A vast majority of respondents (97%) have high speed internet connections. Dial-up internet use is almost negligible.
• Over half of respondents (60%) pay Rs1,500 or less per month for their internet connections.
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• A majority of respondents use the internet over 5 hours a day, followed by those who use the internet 4-5 hours a day.
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• Over 90% of respondents often use the internet at home, as compared to often outside (16%) and often at work (52%).
• Social networks/chatting is the number one activity for respondents, followed closely by email and news.
• Shopping online registered low with respondents.
• Nearly all respondents are on Facebook. Twitter and LinkedIn are both used by at least half of respondents.
• More than half of respondents say they have befriended someone on a social network whom they have never met.
• 41% say they have met someone in the real world whom they have only met online.
• Over 30% of respondents say they have become romantically involved through the internet.
• More than half of respondents have made a purchase online.
• A greater number of respondents (56%) have made a purchase online, as compared to selling something online (26%).
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• More than half of respondents never click on an online ad.
• In terms of video content, entertainment, news and educational videos all ranked high for respondents.
• Respondents indicated they access videos nearly equally for news/documentaries, movies/movie clips and music.
• A majority of respondents (82%) have used proxies or other means to access blocked content.
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Good report. I am impressed to see that so many people in Pak use Laptops and mobiles for the Internet. . It is at the same standard of any developed country!
@EVERYONE
You all seem to love to waste your time.
These are just non-standard subsets of a limited survey and people fall for the journalistic trap.
Please people , find better things to do in your life than just find excuses to conversate diversely.
30% of the correspondents also reported to be trolls used by various political parties against each other.
@Malatesh: Its says they use "blocked" content , not "objectionable" content.
Please exercise proper and accurate criticism.
Very interesting - we need to develop a mind for analysis - good work!
@AR: This indicates that the designing of the survey was not accurate. In fact, majority of the internet users in Pakistan these days use both laptops AND mobile phone to connect internet. The survey items didn't catch that.
@Aslam Baig
And how does Pakistan stand out in that? It's pretty normal all around the world. Get over your prejudice and projections over sex/porn! Just beat it.;)
"On August 20, YouTube's parent company Google deactivated Press TV's new account weeks after disabling the channel's official page," said Press TV Newsroom Director Hamid Reza Emadi.
Now there is a reason why Tribune is never banned by Youtube because they have news which is not doing anything good to the society.
Popalzai and Haque were probably very high right now. haha
The numbers mentioned in the sentence and the one in the pie chart don't match. Unless you are trying to say that the data records people who use multiple devices to access internet, it doesn't add up.
Or may be you math is like that of Hamid Mir during election coverage. 40+47+30 equalled the breakdown of 100% of youth votes for each major political party respectively. ;)
And I thought Pakistanis are more into p0rn watching business.
Since 70% were male, no wonder a vast majority "befriended someone online"
"Laptops are the most used device (81% of total respondents) to connect to the internet. Mobile phones (65%) outranked desktop computers (47%) for accessing the internet."
The numbers don't add up.
Ask NSA.
@Malatesh
What data do you have to support that they represent the majority? If anything, the above survey points to the contrary. Most of the protesters were probably people who only rarely access internet anyways.
Unlike the loud minority, the silent majority of the people(the students and the professionals) "ain't nobody got time for that" kind of protest against the ban..
They'd rather sit at home, turn on the hotspot/spotflux shields and keep up with whatever they were doing before-like access the content they need for their entertainment, news, social networking, studies or job and not accessing blasphemous content anyways. Again, because, "ain't nobody got time for that"
Then why majority of Pakistanis come on streets to protest against the objectionable contents in some sites? you people are already accessing blocked content using proxies.
Very good report. Thank you!