Adult mobile phone ownership or use: by age, 2001 and 2003: Social Trends 34
Adult mobile phone ownership or use: by age, 2001 and 2003: Social Trends 34
Dataset Name:
ST341314
Type of Dataset:
Spreadsheet
Title:
Adult mobile phone ownership or use: by age, 2001 and 2003: Social Trends 34
Last Updated:
13/2/04
Description:
According to the Oftel Residential Survey, 75 per cent of all adults in the United Kingdom owned or used a mobile phone in May 2003. Twenty one per cent used their mobile as their main method of telephony, with 8 per cent of homes only having a mobile, and no fixed line phone.
Ownership of mobile phones varied with age. Nearly 90 per cent of people between the ages of 15 and 34 owned or used a mobile phone in February 2003. This proportion declined with age; less than a quarter of those aged 75 and over owned or used a mobile phone. However in the two years between 2001 and 2003, the largest increases occurred among the older age groups, with the proportion of people aged 75 and over with a mobile phone nearly doubling.
According to the Young People and ICT Survey carried out in England for the Department for Education and Skills in September and October 2002, 41 per cent of girls and 30 per cent of boys aged 5 to 18, and in full-time education, owned a mobile phone. Again, ownership increased with age: 12 per cent of children aged 7 to 11 (Key Stage 2) owned a mobile phone compared with 52 per cent aged 11 to 14 (Key Stage 3) and nearly 70 per cent of children aged 14 to 18 (Key Stage 4 and Post-16).
Another factor which affects mobile phone ownership is income. Ownership within households in the middle income bracket (£17,500 to £30,000 a year) has increased the most in the last few years and in February 2003 were as likely as people in households in the high income bracket (over £30,000 a year) to own a mobile phone (88 per cent and 90 per cent, respectively). Those with lower incomes (less than £17,500) are much less likely to own or use a mobile phone (62 per cent in February 2003).
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