This info should be fairly easily available, you might want to check
some of the major sites that cater to advertisers (as they are the ones
most likely to be paying to get accurate data on the subject.) When
helping my son find a reference for a bit of BTEC homework lately I
encountered the surprising statistic that the majority of MySpace users
in the US are now boomers, not teens/20s. I also remember seeing
something recently on some of the heaviest users of the Internet in the
UK now being seniors--not numerically but in terms of hours spent
online.
I would not use a 1997 ref in this area except as a bit of history to
compare to.
It will also depend on how you define "Internet use"--the percentage of
people worldwide who have Web access is far smaller than those who have
email access, via mobile phones for example. Though wherever you go in
the 3rd world these days you will find Internet cafes or (even in small
villages) someone renting time on their mobile or computer to send
email. Mobiles outnumber landlines in SE Asia, India and many parts of
Africa--the landline infrastructure was never put in in many places, but
mobile masts are cheap and easy to put up, even in remote areas.
This is an area of research where academia is often well behind business
in knowing what's up.
The Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER) was launched at the
School of Education on 4th October. Visit our website at
http://www.webautism.bham.ac.uk/.
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