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Table 11.1
Research methods and participants
Date
11/18/2010
10/7/2010
Method
Self-administered questionnaires (held and
collected in class)
Respondents
Ehime Univ. senior high school
Ehime Univ.
Number
350
157
Grade
1st:120
2nd:67
2nd:116
3rd:66
3rd:114
4th:24
Gender
Female:153
Female:77
Male:197
Male:80
Table 11.2
High school
students' daily Internet access
time
PC
Mobile
Weekday
Weekend Weekday Weekend
0 h
115 (33 %)
79 (23 %)
79 (23 %)
77 (22 %)
0-0.5 h
85 (24 %)
65 (19 %)
92 (26 %)
65 (19 %)
0.5-1 h
79 (23 %)
76 (22 %)
83 (24 %)
72 (21 %)
1-3 h
59 (17 %)
91 (26 %)
79 (23 %)
82 (23 %)
3-5 h
11 (3 %)
29 (8 %)
12 (3 %)
38 (11 %)
5 h over
0 (0 %)
9 (3 %)
5 (1 %)
16 (5 %)
No answer
1 (0 %)
1 (0 %)
0 (0 %)
0 (0 %)
Table 11.3
University
students' daily Internet access
time
PC Mobile
Weekday Weekend Weekday Weekend
0 h
10 (6 %)
7 (4 %)
13 (8 %)
17 (11 %)
0-0.5 h
25 (16 %)
11 (7 %)
39 (25 %)
35 (22 %)
0.5-1 h
47 (30 %)
28 (18 %)
41 (26 %)
36 (23 %)
1-3 h
55 (35 %)
70 (45 %)
48 (31 %)
46 (29 %)
3-5 h
14 (9 %)
26 (17 %)
14 (9 %)
22 (14 %)
5 h over
6 (4 %)
15 (10 %)
1 (1 %)
1 (1 %)
No answer
0 (0 %)
0 (0 %)
1 (1 %)
0 (0 %)
In contrast, Table
11.3
shows university students' daily Internet access time
(excluding e-mail). On weekdays, most of them access the Internet for 0.5-3 h.
There is a large difference between weekday and weekend mobile phone access
time. On weekends, the university students' daily Internet access using a PC
increases to 1-3 h.
Very few university students do not use the Internet, compared to approximately
20 % of high school students. The number of high school students who use only
e-mail or do not use the Internet at all is greater than that of university students.
University students, in contrast, use PCs, particularly on the weekend, more than
high school students. This research was conducted before smartphones become
common in Ehime; thus some students may shift from PCs to mobile phones after
the spread of smartphones.
