Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Last section gathers data about students' demographic attributes as follows:
• Transportation to their school
• Monthly budget
• Grade
• Gender
11.3 Features of Respondents
11.3.1 Lifestyle and Budget
The respondents were 350 high school students and 157 university students.
Table 11.1 displays their composition, which contains only minor deviations in
grade and gender, although the number of university students is half that of high
school students.
Ninety percent of high school students and 70 % of university students ride their
bicycle to school, and only 5 % of all students use public transportation to get to
school. Because Matsuyama city, in which both schools are located, is compact,
most students do not need public transportation. Very few students in Ehime use
ICT devices while traveling in trains or buses, although students in urban area often
use ICT devices while traveling in public transport. We can assume that they use
ICT devices primarily at their house or school.
The monthly average budget of high school students is approximately 5,300 yen,
and 67 % of high school students' budget is 2,000-6,000 yen. In contrast, the
monthly average budget of university students is approximately 36,000 yen, and
45 % of university students' budget is 10,000-30,000 yen.
11.3.2 State of ICT Usage
Most of our respondents use both ICT and the Internet, as indicated by other
research. Only 0.6 % of university students and 6.9 % of high school students do
not have a PC at their homes, and only 0.6 % of university students and 3.1 % of
high school students do not have a mobile phone. Thus, the vast majority of these
young people have an ICT environment including both PCs and mobile phones.
Table 11.2 shows high school students' daily Internet access time (excluding
e-mail). On weekdays, most of them access the Internet for 0.5-1 h or do not access
it at all. They use the mobile phone as their primary device for accessing the
Internet. Approximately 20 % of them use the Internet for 1-3 h on a weekday.
For both PCs and mobile phones, the daily access time on weekends is longer than
that on weekdays.
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