{"id":17598,"date":"2023-07-26T05:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=17598"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:02:24","slug":"canadian-internet-use-survey-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=17598","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Internet Use Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistics Canada recently released data from its Canadian Internet Use Survey, 2022<\/a>. In late June, I wrote about “Trusted sources for telecom data”<\/a> and pointed to its \u201cTelecommunications: Connecting Canadians\u201d<\/em> page, a subset of its \u201cDigital economy and society statistics\u201d<\/em> portal. <\/p>\n

\"Online<\/a>The 2022 Canadian Internet Use Survey was actually conducted between December 2022 and April 2023. Although Statistics Canada has been conducting its Canadian Internet Use Survey for many years, the agency cautions against comparing data prior to 2018 because of changes in design. <\/p>\n

While the Canadian Internet Use Survey covers just the 10 provinces, a companion article was issued last year, “Canada\u2019s Far North less remote than meets the eye”<\/a>. According to that article, “in 2021, 88% of those living in the Northern Territories said they had used the Internet over the past three months and 90% over the past 12 months. By way of comparison, in 2020, 92% of Canadians living in the provinces said they had used the Internet over the previous three months. The overwhelming majority (97%) of non-Indigenous Northerners used the Internet over the past year, compared with just over three-quarters of Indigenous people living in the North.<\/p>\n

There were a number of notable observations in last week’s release of the Canadian Internet Use Survey<\/a>:<\/p>\n