From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – According to a survey conducted by the Datafolha institute, commissioned by advertising agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, 39% of Brazilians access the Internet. The percentage includes Web use at home, at work, at the house of relatives or friends, or in other places, such as educational institutions and cyber cafés. The percentage equals 49 million Brazilians over the age of 16.
According to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE), there are 127 million Brazilians in that age bracket. In southeast Brazil, the percentage of people aged over 16 who use the Internet is 44%. In the north and midwest, it is 37%, and in the south and northeast, 34%. The survey also revealed that Brazilians access the Internet mainly at public places, such as cyber cafés, schools, libraries, and educational institutions.
Questioned as to the habit of uploading content to the Internet, 42% declared that they had already uploaded either a text, a photograph, a song or a movie. The majority of those who upload content – 33% – do so in order to relate to other people and to friends.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
