The bar charts elucidate a comparative analysis of Internet-using reasons, categorized in age cohorts and measured in percentages across Australia, during the years 2010 and 2011.
Overall, whilst social media recorded transparent age disparities in usage rates, favoring the younger groups, the remaining categories exhibited higher proportion by older users. Moreover, emailings registered the most major purpose of using Internet throughout the entire period.
Regarding age distribution in each purpose, most Australian residents aged 18-25 utilized Internet for social media, followed by the roughly 80% and 70% in utilization rates of the 26-40 and 40-60 ranges in sequence. As could be observed, these figures remarkable exceeded that of people aged 60-65 and over 65, which both constituted under 40%.
Turning payings bills online and emailings that underwent similar trajectories in usage rates , the ranges of citizens under 40 years old revealed approximately 60% Internet users, marginally lower than that of the over-40-year-old cohorts, which all plateaued between 70% and 80%.
Concerning the average statistics for three Internet-using reasons, emailings ranked first at over 70% Australian users, outnumbering the data for online bill payments and social media, which respectively attained mildly more than 50% and 40% over the consecutive years.