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Survey Finds PCs In 40% Of
Canadian Homes 11/16/94 TORONTO,
ONTARIO, CANADA, 1994 NOV 16 (NB) --
The percentage of Canadian homes with
personal computers has nearly doubled
in the past two years, according to a
recent survey by pollster COMPAS and
public relations agency Cohn & Wolfe.
The survey, taken in September, found
that about 40 percent of Canadian
homes have computers.
That figure doubles the roughly
20-percent penetration reported in a
survey by Statistics Canada, the
federal statistical agency, in 1992,
according to Cohn & Wolfe.
The survey found some variations
in the number of homes with PCs,
depending on geography, income, and
education levels, and a distinction
between urban and rural areas.
As might be expected, higher-
income families are more likely to
own computers. Among families with
incomes of C$70,000 and up, 66
percent said they owned at least one
PC, while the figure dropped to 21
percent for families with incomes of
less than C$30,000. Sixty-three
percent of those with university
educations owned home computers,
versus 47 percent of those with
college educations, 27 percent of
those with high school, and only five
percent of those with less than a
high school education.
Of those living in urban centers
with one million people or more, 49
percent had computers. The percentage
was nearly the same -- 48 percent --
in centers of 500,000 to one million
population, dropped to 41 percent in
smaller centers with population from
100,000 to 500,000, and reached a low
of 26 percent in rural areas and
towns of fewer than 10,000 people.
Regional disparities partly
reflect income levels and the urban-
versus-rural divide. Ontario,
Canada's richest and most urban
province, reported 46-percent
penetration of home computers.
British Columbia was next with 41
percent, while the figure was 40
percent in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and
Manitoba, 37 percent in Quebec, and
27 percent in the four Atlantic
provinces.
The survey did not ask for what
purposes people bought their home
computers, but Julie Rusciolelli, a
spokeswoman for Cohn & Wolfe, told
Newsbytes that according to an
earlier survey commissioned by Intel
Corp., the top three reasons were
bringing work home from the office,
education, and games, in that order.
The COMPAS/Cohn & Wolfe survey
was based on a random sample of 2,648
adult Canadians contacted in late
September, and the firms said such a
survey is accurate to within 1.9
percentage points either way 19 out
of 20 times.
(Grant Buckler/19941116/Press
Contact: Chris Martyn, COMPAS, 416-
964-1488; Julie Rusciolelli, Cohn &
Wolfe, 416-924-5700; Public Contact:
Cohn & Wolfe, 416-924-5700, fax 416-
924-6606)