Year Published: 2019
Date Published: 06/09/2019
Author/s: Grant Blank, William H. Dutton and Julia Lefkowitz
Research Link: https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2019/09/OxIS-report-2019-final-digital-PDFA.pdf
Methodology: The OxIS surveys aim to reach a nationally representative random sample of 2000 people aged 14 and upwards in Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). Interviews are conducted face to face in people’s homes by ICM Research.
Key Takeaways:
Grant Blank and William H. Dutton with assistance from Julia Lefkowitz
Key findings of the 2019 Oxford Internet Survey include:
• After many years of rapid change, parts of the Internet are stabilising
• Internet users have rapidly increased banking, commercial and entertainment activity
• Generally, there are small or no increases in content-production activities like posting pictures, commenting, reviewing, maintaining a personal website, or blogging
• Access to the Internet has increased but only incrementally
• Almost everyone under the age of 50 uses the Internet
• There remain higher proportions of non-users below the median income (£28,400/year in 2018)
• There are also disproportionate percentages of non-users among less-educated groups