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The availability of technological assets in Italian families

In Italy the most common technology assets are the television, present in 95.4% of households and mobile (88.5%). Here are the DVD player (59.7%), VCR (58.1%), the personal computer (50.1%) and Internet access (42%). Among the technological assets present in the families some relief even a satellite dish (30.7%), the camera (26.8%), the digital decoder (23.8%) and game consoles (18 , 1%).

Families do not have Internet at home the inability to use
49.9% of households do not own a personal computer and 58% do not access the Internet from home. Among the reasons for not browsing the Internet from home, families indicate firstly the lack of capacity (40.6%) and, secondly, that they consider useless and uninteresting (25.2%). 12.9% of households have no access to Internet at home because it leads to another place, 11, 6% considered expensive because the tools to connect and 12.6% considered expensive because the link. Are around 2% as the reasons for physical disability, privacy and the danger of Internet content.

Italy is back in Europe
Considering the percentage of households with at least one member between 16 and 64 who have Internet access at home, Italy lags behind many countries in the European Community, resulting in fourth last this list (with a penetration rate of 42% compared to the European average of 60%). Close to Italy are countries such as Cyprus (43%), while the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark showed a penetration rate almost double.
remember that the European Union has 24 members and fourth last means that 20 are before us.

Istat - report 2008