Netherlands: online information and entertainment activities, by education

This statistic shows the responses to the survey question: "What kind of online information and entertainment activities have you engaged in over the past three months?". The figure illustrates the share of individuals who used the Internet for online information and entertainment activities in the Netherlands in 2019, by education. As of 2019, 27.9 percent of highly educated individuals answering the survey question said they used the Internet to search for a job vacancy or to apply for a job.

What kind of online information and entertainment activities have you engaged in over the past three months?*

Characteristic	Low	Mid	High
Information about goods and services	66.2%	90.8%	96.5%
Searching for a job or sending a job application	15.3%	24.2%	27.9%
Information about health	53.1%	71.3%	83.8%
Watching television	50.4%	64.5%	73.3%
Reading or downloading newspapers or news magazines	49.9%	73.8%	86.5%
Playing or downloading music or games	63.4%	74.6%	80.6%
Uploading pictures, music, tekst, etc	39.1%	53.1%	59.2%

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2019

Number of respondents

4,500 respondents

Age group

12 years and older

Special properties

individuals who are part of a private household; internet for personal usage

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

* Original survey question: "Did you use internet in the past three months for one of the following activities: to find information about goods or services; to use services in the travel branch; to look for a job or apply for a job; to find information concerning health; to listen to the radio; to watch television; to read or download newspapers or news magazines; to play or download games, images, movies or music; to upload self made pictures, music, video's, text or software; to download software other than games".

Multiple answers were possible.

The source defines the education levels as follows:

Low education level: "Primary education, VMBO (preparatory middle-level vocational education), first three years of Havo/VWO (higher general and pre-university secondary education), or assistant education (MBO-1)"
Mid education level: "Last years of Havo/VWO, MBO2, 3 and 4 (middle applied education)"
High education level: "HBO (higher applied education) and WO (university studies) and older educational programs which are comparable."

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