Special Eurobarometer 141: The Information Society

MEASURING INFORMATION SOCIETY 2000 - A Eurobarometer survey carried out for the European Commission by INRA (Europe) - European Coordination Office in Spring 2000. This report is structured in five parts. The first section looks at the ownership and use of various information and communication technologies. The second focuses on the interest raised by these technologies and intentions to purchase them. The last three sections investigate the use of the Internet (applications and services, impact on other activities and connection). The social-demographic variables used in this report are: 1) Country 2) Gender 3) Age (in four bands: 15-24, 25-39, 40-54 and 55 years or more) 4) Professional status (in three groups: Self-employed, Employed and Not working) 5) Household income (harmonised in four bands) 6) Size of household (number of people living in household) 7) Level of education (Terminal Education Age, i.e. age when finished full time education, in four bands: age of 15 or less, 16-19, 20 years or more, still studying) 8) Media use index (aggregate of three questions regarding exposure to news media – radio, television and newspapers-, in four groups) When possible and appropriate, relevant variables are considered for cross-tabulation with various social-demographic variables so as to determine the amplitude, if any, of inter-group differences. This report was prepared by François Heinderyckx, PhD, lecturer at the University of Brussels (ULB), Chairman of the department of Communication, information and journalism. #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)