Nearly 60% of Slovenians Use Internet
As many as 59% of Slovenians used the internet in 2007, or 942,500 people aged between 16 and 75. This puts the country on the average among EU member states.
The figures follow the latest survey by the Methodology and Information Science Centre, which established in its first such poll in 1996 that only 4% of the population used the internet.
The most common internet users are young people aged between 12 and 29. While these access the web several times a day, older age groups use it less. In fact the frequency of use declines in reverse proportion to the age of users.
Similar results follow from a survey by Valicon. More than half of Slovenian web visitors are between 15 and 34 years old. An average Slovenian user visited web pages nearly 275 times in March on 50 websites surveyed.
For Slovenian users the internet is above all a source of general news, as well as information about music and films.
Male users spend an average three hours, 12 minutes and 51 seconds a month browsing the internet, while women spend 45 minutes less, the Valicon survey shows.
The most active population on Slovenian web sites is students. While secondary school students account for 411 visits a month, primary school pupils make an average of 556 visits a month, spending nearly seven hours a month for this.
The least frequent users appear to be civil servants, as they spent an average of less than two hours a month browsing web sites.
Considering education, the most common users are those with a university degree. As many as 75% of these access the internet several times a day, according to the survey by the Methodology and Information Science Centre.
The Valicon survey meanwhile shows the most internet-oriented group is men in the lowest education group. While there are just 3% of such users, they spend an average five and a half hours a day on the internet.
Comparative EU data shows Slovenia ranks somewhere in the mean among EU countries, although there has been a slowdown in the growth of users. Eurostat data for 2007 puts the average number of weekly internet users at 52% for Slovenia and 59% for the EU.
The most often visited web portal is Google.com, followed by Slovenian search engine Najdi.si and 24ur.com, the news website of private broadcaster POP TV. Other frequently visited sites are Microsoft, Bolha, Siol in Yahoo.
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