33% of Belarusian regional centers population are internet users

Author: Mikhail Doroshevich

19/07/2006

According to the survey conducted by MASMI BY in 2006, internet users make 33% of the population of regional centers in Belarus. An offline polling of 1000 respondents aged from 18 to 64 had been conducted during three months in Minsk and other regional centers of Belarus. 65% of internet users are 18-34 years old, and 35% of the fraction are made by respondents aged from 18 to 24 years old. Men make the largest fraction of users, which is 7% more than women having internet access.

In Minsk internet users make 38% of population, in Mogilev -18%, in Grodno -36%, in Gomel -26% in Vitebsk -39%, and in Brest -23%.

47% of respondents mentioned TUT.BY as the most popular Belarusian Internet resource. Other top-5 resources are Yandex.ru (43%), Rambler.ru (34%), Mail.ru (27%), and Google.com (24%).

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