Graph 87a - All households, households
with a computer, households with a computer and internet access
2000-2003.
graphs 87b
and 87c | graphs 88a and 88b | graphs 89a and 89b | graphs 90a, 90b,
and 90c | graphs 91a and 91b | graphs 92a and 92b | data collection (graphs)
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Note 1: "Personal computers refers
to a computer designed for individual use. Personal computers includes
desktop computer, laptop/notebook computer and Personal Digital
Assistant. Servers, workstations and terminals of mainframe or
minicomputer are not included. Personal computers may be connected to
form a Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN)." Source:
Hong Kong Government. Census and Statistics
Department.
Information Technology and Telecommunications Statistics Section.
2003. Hong Kong as an Information Society. Appendix A - Terms and
Definitions 1.3, p. 115. Comment: An email from the Social
Survey
Section of CSD confirmed that both sections used the same definition
for the term personal computer in their respective reports.
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| Note 2: "Internet is the
world-wide public computer network, which provides access to a wide
range of services including the world wide web, email, newsgroup and
file transfer." Source: Hong Kong Government. Census and
Statistics
Department.
Information Technology and Telecommunications Statistics Section.
2003. Hong Kong as an Information Society. Appendix A - Terms and
Definitions 2.11, p. 117. |
Note 3: The variable All
households is an average of two identical calculations -- one for
each source table. By dividing the value of the variable Household
computer (households with a personal computer) for each year by its
corresponding decimal fraction of All households (total number
of households in the population at large) for each year the values for
the variable All households were obtained. Doing this same
operation for Internet access (households with a computer and
internet access) yielded a different set of values for the
variable All households. This discrepancy is likely due to
rounding error and was overcome by the aforementioned averaging
technique.
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| Source:
Hong Kong Government. Census and Statistics Department. Social Surveys Section.
2003. Thematic Household Survey Report No. 15. Information Technology
Usage and Penetration. Chapter 3 - Penetration of personal computer and
Internet. Table 3.1 Households with personal computer at home, p.
21.
Table 3.5 Households with personal computer at home connected to
Internet, p. 29. EARTH's copy of the corresponding table
is available on request. |
