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07/07/2011 |
Internet in Brazil
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Profile of Internet Users in Brazil
This page presents the results of the research TIC Domiciles made by NIC.br. and IBGE (PNAD 2005).
The research is carried out in Sep/Oct counting 24,607 interviews. The results got from 2005 to 2007 don't include rural areas.
The following presents this information per age, income, social class, sex and instruction. It presents also the frequency of use, kinf of connection and place used for internet access.
The research considers internet users those people who accessed internet in the last three months. Following this criteria, it shows that 41% of the population accessed internet, 45% of them in urban area and 16% in rural.
Internet users: per Age
Percentage of people who accessed internet in the last 90 days, divided by age group. (TIC Domiciles)
| Age Group | 2005* | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2010 |
| From 10 to 15 years | 30% |
38% |
53% |
53% |
65% |
| From 16 to 24 years | 46% |
49% |
60% |
61% |
64% |
| From 25 to 34 years | 27% |
35% |
45% |
41% |
52% |
| From 35 to 44 years | 20% |
21% |
24% |
26% |
33% |
| From 45 to 59 years | 16% |
11% |
12% |
13% |
20% |
| From 60 years or more | 4% |
3% |
3% |
2% |
5% |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
Internet users: per Income
| % | PNAD 2005 | 2005* | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Until 1 Minimum Wage | - |
4% |
5% |
12% |
10% |
16% |
16% |
| From 1 to 2 Minimum Wages | 12% |
8% |
11% |
21% |
22% |
30% |
31% |
| From 2 to 3 Minimum Wages | 25% |
15% |
20% |
38% |
37% |
46% |
45% |
| From 3 to 5 Minimum Wages | 42% |
26% |
34% |
51% |
52% |
61% |
56% |
| From 5 to 10 Minimum Wages | 55% |
55% |
59% |
68% |
65% |
72% |
76% |
| More than 10 Minimum Wages | 21% |
24% |
28% |
34% |
81% |
79% |
72% |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
Internet users: per Social Class
| 2008 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| A | 89% |
85% |
84% |
| B | 68% |
72% |
73% |
| C | 38% |
42% |
42% |
| DE | 13% |
14% |
13% |
Internet users: per Instruction
| Instruction | 2005* | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
2010 |
| Illiterate/Primary Education | 3% |
4% |
7% |
7% |
9% |
13% |
| Secondary Education | 13% |
22% |
29% |
30% |
36% |
43% |
| High School | 41% |
42% |
51% |
53% |
60% |
58% |
| College | 80% |
82% |
78% |
83% |
87% |
81% |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
Internet users: per Sex
| Sex | PNAD 2005 | 2005* | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Male | 21% |
28% |
30% |
37% |
36% |
41% |
41% |
| Female | 20% |
22% |
26% |
32% |
32% |
38% |
40% |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
Frequency of internet use
| Frequency of use (%) | PNAD 2005 |
2005* |
2006* |
2007* |
2008 |
2009 |
| At least once a day | 36,3% |
40% |
46% |
53% |
53% |
60% |
| At least once a week, but not every day | 47,3% |
40% |
38% |
34% |
35% |
30% |
| At least once a month, but not every week | 11,7% |
14% |
12% |
10% |
10% |
9% |
| Less than once a month | 3,1% |
6% |
4% |
3% |
2% |
2% |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
Type of internet connection in domicile
| Connection type | PNAD 2005 | 2005* | 2006* | 2007* | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Dialed access** | 52.1% |
65% |
49% |
42% |
31% |
20% |
13% |
| Broadband access ** | 41.2% |
22% |
40% |
50% |
58% |
66% |
68% |
| Others | - |
9% |
2% |
1% |
1% |
6% |
10%** |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
** Mobile broadband
| Type of Connection | 2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
| Traditional Modem (dial up) | 31% |
20% |
13% |
| Broadband | 58% |
66% |
68% |
| - Digital modem via telephony line (DSL technology) | 23% |
23% |
30% |
| - Modem via cable | 23% |
25% |
25% |
| - Connection via radio | 11% |
14% |
12% |
| - Connection via sattelite | 2% |
3% |
3% |
| Others | 1% |
6% |
10%* |
| Don't know/Don't answered | 10% |
10% |
10% |
*Mobile broadband
Place used for internet access
| Place of access(%) | PNAD 2005 |
2005* |
2006* |
2007* |
2008 |
2009 | 2010 |
| At home | 50.0% |
42% |
40% |
40% |
42% |
48% |
56% |
| Work place | 39.7% |
26% |
24% |
24% |
21% |
22% |
22% |
| School | 25.7% |
21% |
16% |
15% |
14% |
14% |
14% |
| Somebody else's domicile | - |
18% |
16% |
24% |
22% |
26% |
27% |
| Public center for free access | 10.0% |
2% |
3% |
6% |
4% |
4% |
4% |
| Public Center for paid access | 21.9% |
18% |
30% |
49% |
48% |
45% |
35% |
| Other place | 31.1% |
4% |
2% |
2% |
0% |
0% |
3%** |
*It doesn't include Brazilian rural area
** through cell phone
Maximum price declared for acquiring Internet access
R$ |
% of the population | |
2009 |
2010 |
|
more than 250 |
1% |
1% |
250 |
2% |
2% |
200 |
3% |
3% |
150 |
6% |
5% |
100 |
14% |
12% |
80 |
20% |
17% |
70 |
26% |
23% |
50 |
41% |
36% |
40 |
49% |
45% |
30 |
60% |
56% |
20 |
68% |
64% |
10 |
75% |
69% |
| Wouldn't pay | - |
31% |
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