eGovernment Chart 28: Educational level of eGovernment users / non-users by country

eUSER population survey 2005

 

		Below lower secondary	lower secondary (15-16)	higher secondary (17-20)	tertiary (21+)	don't know or still studying
DE	Non-users	0.7	67.8	19.9	10.8	0.8
	Users	0.0	42.1	30.6	26.8	0.5
FR	Non-users	24.6	4.6	49.5	20.7	0.6
	Users	1.2	4.0	33.2	61.6	0.0
IT	Non-users	11.0	28.7	44.2	15.6	0.5
	Users	0.9	6.2	57.0	35.9	0.0
DK	Non-users	8.7	52.5	26.6	11.7	0.4
	Users	1.3	28.3	36.4	33.3	0.7
UK	Non-users	19.2	23.3	30.6	21.3	5.6
	Users	5.6	13.3	26.1	52.6	2.4
IE	Non-users	20.5	22.8	23.8	30.1	2.9
	Users	4.2	13.8	24.1	56.8	1.1
PL	Non-users	28.5	30.1	33.5	7.9	0.0
	Users	11.7	6.3	45.5	36.5	0.0
HU	Non-users	39.6	26.0	26.1	8.3	0.0
	Users	25.6	7.4	32.5	34.5	0.0
CZ	Non-users	10.7	33.0	43.6	12.8	0.0
	Users	4.7	8.3	60.8	26.2	0.0
SI	Non-users	14.8	21.0	58.3	5.9	0.0
	Users	5.4	3.5	77.2	13.9	0.0

As Chart 28 indicates, the relationship between eGovernment use and educational level is not clear cut, except that there is a significant tendency overall for users to have a higher secondary or tertiary education, although Germany is an exception to this with much the highest percentage of users in the lower secondary group (see also Chart 30 in relation to socio-economic status).

Users with tertiary education show the highest percentages in France, the UK and Ireland, and marginally in Hungary, i.e. typically the older Member States. On the other hand, users with higher secondary education show the highest percentages in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, i.e. typically the New Member States. Denmark seems to be atypical in that that there is a very even spread of users amongst all educational levels, except in the below lower secondary group (see also Chart 30 in relation to socio-economic status). Most older Member States have very low percentages of users in the below lower secondary group, whereas the percentages of users in this category in the New Member States tends to be higher.