{"id":9329,"date":"2015-05-22T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T09:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2015-05-22T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T09:17:21","slug":"the-number-of-uk-adults-to-have-never-gone-online-drops-to-5-9-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/the-number-of-uk-adults-to-have-never-gone-online-drops-to-5-9-million.html","title":{"rendered":"The Number of UK Adults to Have NEVER Gone Online Drops to 5.9 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>2015 Internet Users<\/em> report from the Government\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office for National Statistics<\/a> has reported that 86% of adults (44.7 million) in the United Kingdom had used the internet, in the last 3 months, by the end of March 2015. But issues like disability and old age meant that 11% of adults (5.9m) had never gone online (down from 6.4m one year ago).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Age is a key factor here and unsurprisingly adults aged 16 to 24 years were said to have &#8220;<em>consistently shown the highest rates of internet use<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. 99% have been online in the past 3 months), which falls slightly to 95% for those aged 35-54, then to 87% for 55-64, 71% for users aged 65-74 and finally this collapses to just 33% for adults aged 75+. Out of the 5.9 million adults who had never used the internet, some 3.0 million were aged 75+.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly disability remains one of the single biggest problem areas and the ONS states that 27% of disabled adults (3.3 million) had never used the internet (down from 3.5m one year ago), although it&#8217;s important to note that some of those aged 75+ who have never gone online would also be classified as disabled.<\/p>\n<p>The report also touched on the gender divide, although the figures are quite close with 88% of men (22.2 million) and 85% of women (22.4 million) being classified as recent Internet users. Otherwise there&#8217;s not a lot to report and it appears as if the ONS has removed its old category for measuring the impact of income on Internet use.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>2015 Internet Users Report (PDF)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/dcp171778_404497.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/dcp171778_404497.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Internet Users report from the Government\u2019s Office for National Statistics has reported that 86% of adults (44.7 million) in the United Kingdom had used the internet, in the last 3 months, by the end of March 2015. 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