The provided bar chart compared the popularity of internet usage between genders (male and female) between ages from 15 to 24 in Canada in 2000. Additionally, the data provided the four various purposes for which the internet was used (such as email, social networks, online shopping and other activities.) Units were measured in percentages.
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In general the both male and female users chose the Internet for chatting via email. Meanwhile the lowest indicators differed. Actually, as is observed, men used the internet for their own various purposes, whereas women surfed the internet for online shopping.
Looking more closely at the female consumption of the internet, the percentage of people using it for email reached the peak of 48 percent, overall highest. Additionally, they had a bottommost point in the sector of other activities which was just 9 percent. Social networks and online shopping hadn’t a big gap between each other which was around 5 percent.
As for male usage, their highest percent of internet usage was also, as it said, in the email sector and was 41 percent, 7 percent lower than women’s. In second place there was a social network choice and was around 28 percent. However, they overtook the women in the online shopping sector by 6 percent, they consume the internet for other activities less than female users by as much as 9 percent.