98 per cent of Islanders have home internet

Sat, 06 Aug 2016

86 per cent of people aged 15 to 34 who took part in a social research study say they use social media every day.

That's the finding from the Social Attitudes Survey - the work, commissioned by the Cabinet Office, is the biggest piece of research ever done on the Island.

98 per cent of the 2,000 plus people who took part - who were aged between 15 and 91 - revealed they had access to the internet at home. 14 per cent of people aged 65 or over said they'd never used social media.

Carl Hawker is the executive director of policy and strategy - he says steps were taken to ensure the non-digitally active population were reached for their opinions: