What the study found
13 April 2012
Access
- 71 per cent of children have a home PC with internet access.
- 38 per cent have mobile phones with internet access.
- 88 per cent of the middle classes have accessed the internet at home, compared with 61 per cent of the working classes.
- 19 per cent have internet access in their bedrooms.
- 79 per cent mostly use the internet alone.
Chat rooms
- 21 per cent admit to using the internet to access chat rooms.
- A third of nine- to 19-year-olds have received unwanted sexual or nasty comments via email or chat.
- Almost half of nine- to 19-yearolds admit to giving personal information online.
- Nearly half who go online once a week have given out full name, age, address, phone number, hobbies or name of their school to someone they "met" on the internet.
Pornography
- Nearly six in 10 have come into contact with online pornography.
- 38 per cent have seen a pornographic pop-up advert while doing something else.
- 36 per cent have accidentally found a pornographic website.
- 25 per cent have received pornographic junk mail by email or text.
- 10 per cent have visited a pornographic website on purpose.
