South Africa’s best connected groups revealed

[jes]

South Africa’s best connected groups revealed (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/28866-sa%e2%80%99s-best-connected-groups-revealed.html)

South Africa’s Internet user demographics reveals which parts of South Africa’s population are the best connected

[Wolmeester]

So if your are like me and own less than 10000 your are eating bread most of the time lol,

[MKsporo]

i disagree with the research, Western cape is the best

[duderoo]

So if your are like me and own less than 10000 your are eating bread most of the time lol,

Shame dude, you got a wife and kids, if not then you should be ok'ish.

[CR34M3]

Man, this article makes me feel utterly generic. When it starts with "The typical internet user is..." and I'm ticking yes in all the boxes...

While the low internet usage numbers in low income communities are evident from the stats (and from Telkom's very awesome great infrastructure in remote areas), seeing the reasons people don't use the internet would be interesting. Why are under 25's not on the net? Because they can't, don't want to, or have another means of entertainment? Doing a survey on people who don't use the internet and asking them why might show curious results.

[goselito]

Gauteng ftw :-)

[Gimli]

Sorry but the third column in the attached table just does not make sense. You cant take internet usage as a percentage of total internet users, and divide it by demographic as a percentage of population, and expect any sense of that. Please explain to me what white = 671% means. Does it mean that whites use the internet 671% more than their racial demographic suggest they should? I suspect you want to show what % of the south african population that uses the internet are white and therefore you need the figures, you cant devide the percentages and get another percentage. You need amount of white internet users, divided by amount of whites in the country. I guess you don't have those figures

[ToxicBunny]

My guess is that alot of that data is based off where ISP's report IPs to be coming from, rather than WHERE they are actually dished out to.

Often I have an IP at home, that is marked as being in Gauteng rather than in KZN...

[Dan C]

My guess is that alot of that data is based off where ISP's report IPs to be coming from, rather than WHERE they are actually dished out to.

Often I have an IP at home, that is marked as being in Gauteng rather than in KZN...

Think this was done using a survey. (questionnaire) , but I may be wrong :)

[ToxicBunny]

Think this was done using a survey. (questionnaire) , but I may be wrong :)

I didn't say ALL the data, but alot of the data in regards to the last column at least would be based of GeoIP stuff... as well as a questionaire.

[Gimli]

As an example, expanding on my previous post lets assume (and I don't have the figures either) Population of South Africa - 50 000 000. Total internet users in South Africa = 5 000 000 (help me if you have better information). Then you would be able to say that the total amount of white people using the internet is 3 088 000 and the total population of white people is 4 600 000. And so 67% of the White population uses the internet vs. 3.35% of the Black population. Playing around with the total amount of internet users in the country can lead to radically varying results. i.e. if you increase it to 10 000 000 you would find that more than 100% of white people use the internet, and that could of course not be true. I suggest you just leave out the third column as it does not make sense. You don't refer to it in the article in any case. I suspect it is there for dramatic effect.

[Mouse]

Why are under 25's not on the net?

Because the survey excluded mobile internet use?

[Markd]

As an example, expanding on my previous post lets assume (and I don't have the figures either) Population of South Africa - 50 000 000. Total internet users in South Africa = 5 000 000 (help me if you have better information). Then you would be able to say that the total amount of white people using the internet is 3 088 000 and the total population of white people is 4 600 000. And so 67% of the White population uses the internet vs. 3.35% of the Black population. Playing around with the total amount of internet users in the country can lead to radically varying results. i.e. if you increase it to 10 000 000 you would find that more than 100% of white people use the internet, and that could of course not be true. I suggest you just leave out the third column as it does not make sense. You don't refer to it in the article in any case. I suspect it is there for dramatic effect.

I agree. We've seen this in several articles now and its not clear exactly what its trying to show. The muppet at MyBB that somehow thinks this is useful needs to re-think his approach in terms of the above quote, which makes far more sense...

[garp]

They are clearly ignoring mobile internet users as there are 15 million mobile users in SA under 29yrs and 70% have smartphones - http://www.slideshare.net/mobileyouth/mobileyouth-south-africa-whitepaper-3-key-emerging-trends-for-2012

[Matsepane]

go away with this stats.they are not based.

[VioAdmin]

CPTown for the win!

We need to increase these statistics!! Drop the f'n prices Telkom so the youth can get connected and get educated and help Africa grow even faster.

[CritiKill]

@Gimli - pls don't be a ranting moron! The 671% is the factor of the group's overall population in relation to the group's internet using population. At only 9% of the total population in SA, White people make up 61% of the total Internet using population...this is where the figure comes from...clear as day really.

[chubster]

When kids use MXit, they use the internet..... when you use VoIP, you are using the internet. If you are using Opera Mini/Opera/Built-in browser, facebook, jabber, msn etc etc.... It is still internet. I guess people don't realise how much they actually use internet. When they ticked internet, no but yes for mxit yes. See the problem? :erm:

[He-Man]

While labeling a mxit user as an internet user is logically correct, can we really say they use the internet to its full potential? A person that uses the internet purely for social networking should be slapped with a wet fish.

[mobilescan]

strange stats

[ingeon]

go away with this stats.they are not based.

I agree, they are more biased :p

Utter cowpoo if you ask me. These days they google more nyatsi than`s good for them.
The reason these stats tick me off is because some will use it as a demo-graphical fact...

[garp]

When kids use MXit, they use the internet..... when you use VoIP, you are using the internet. If you are using Opera Mini/Opera/Built-in browser, facebook, jabber, msn etc etc.... It is still internet. I guess people don't realise how much they actually use internet. When they ticked internet, no but yes for mxit yes. See the problem? :erm:

+1

To say that only 7% of internet users are 25 is total bollocks, unless you define internet use strictly only in terms of a PC and a browser. Other surveys have recently indicated that there are as many as 15 million mobile internet users under 29!!

[fdaniels]

Sorry but the third column in the attached table just does not make sense. You cant take internet usage as a percentage of total internet users, and divide it by demographic as a percentage of population, and expect any sense of that. Please explain to me what white = 671% means. Does it mean that whites use the internet 671% more than their racial demographic suggest they should? I suspect you want to show what % of the south african population that uses the internet are white and therefore you need the figures, you cant devide the percentages and get another percentage. You need amount of white internet users, divided by amount of whites in the country. I guess you don't have those figures

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read this article.

[Gimli]

@CritiKill Does it make you feel macho going around calling people names? Your argument is clear as mud really! You can't express something as a percentage of something else if they don't have something in common. Another example. I pay 14 percent value added tax, and I pay 30% income tax, therefore (30/14)*100 = 214%. And therefore it is an expression of my income tax versus my value added tax. Clear as mud really!