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% of households which own/lease a PC
For many households the PC is a familiar and extremely functional technology, and despite the emergence of access technologies such as digital television and Internet enabled mobile phones, the PC remains the predominant Internet access technology in the home. At September 2001, an estimated 67% of Australian households owned or leased a PC, placing Australia in the top five. Australia was ranked 2nd ahead of Sweden and the US (both 65%), although estimates for the US were imputed. South Korea had the highest level of PC ownership, with 70% of households reporting owning or leasing a PC. This is characteristic of this nation's rapid advancement over the last five years in terms of the take up of key Information Economy "enabling" technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones, and broadband Internet access. However, a significant number of computer households are yet to connect to the Internet. As the following chart shows, while the home PC remains the dominant Internet access device for the vast majority of households, on average there was a 10 percentage point difference between households reporting owning or leasing a home PC and households connected to the Internet via a home PC at September 2001. For example, while 67% of Australian households reported owning or leasing a PC, 49% of households reported being connected to the Internet via a home computer, an 18 percentage point difference between the two estimates.
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Score | |
| Points | |
| South Korea | 70 |
| Australia | 67 |
| US | 65 |
| Sweden | 65 |
| Singapore | 64 |
| Hong Kong | 62 |
| New Zealand | 62 |
| Norway | 60 |
| Taiwan | 58 |
| Germany | 47 |
| UK | 47 |
| Ireland | 44 |
| Italy | 42 |
| France | 35 |