Band 8+: The chart below shows the way in which men and women used the Internet in Canada in 2000.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the percentage of Canadian internet users, both male and female, during the year 2000.

Overall, people mostly used the internet for email, followed by goods and services, and games at around 70%, 65%, and 60%, respectively. However, there were fewer users for research and education, which only accounted for approximately 10%.

Both male and female users had the same trend from what they used the most to the least, but they differed when compare deeply within each category.

There were more male clients using the internet for games, around 65%, and for goods and services, around 70%, compared to women, which were around 55% and 60% respectively. On the other hand, there were many more female internet users for online shopping at around 40% of users, unlike that of men at 25%. There were nearly equivalent customers for e-mailing and chatting, at around 70% and 50%, respectively.