Project details

Project title

Norton Online Family Report

Country or countries

Italy (IT); Australia (AU); Brazil (BR); Canada (CA); China (CN); Germany (DE); Spain (ES); France (FR); India (IN); Japan (JP); New Zealand (NZ); Sweden (SE); United Kingdom (UK); United States (US)

Language(s) of report

Italian

Funder of research

Private funding

Date of fieldwork

2010

Main research focus

Target group studied

Children; Parents; Others (e.g. teachers)

Description of studied group

Age of children studied

8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18

Methodology

Quantitative

Size of sample

2805 children aged 8-17 and 7066 adults (among which 1669 parents of children aged 8-17)

If survey, scope of sample

National

Access and use; Activities; Risks and harm; Mediation

• On average children aged 8-17 spend online 1.6 hours per day. Nearly half of the sample (48%) think the time they spend online is too much. • 44% of parents agree that they need to be in control of what their children do online. However, while 4 parents out of ten state they always know what their children do online, 52% report being informed on their children’s online activities only sometimes. While just 4% of parents claim they ignore what their children do online, this percentage increases to 20%, according to children. • The main risky experiences reported by children are: receiving a friendship request by a stranger (41%); downloading a virus (33%); seeing unwanted sexual or violent content (25%); and being invited to an offline meeting by strangers (10%). More than one-third of children feel upset, bothered, angry, or confused by what happened online.

Relevant publications

Save the Children Italia (2010). Sessualità e Internet:  i comportamenti dei teenager italiani. Save the Children Italia: Roma

Report accessibility

Printed or online report

URL of report

http://www.savethechildren.it/IT/Tool/Pubblicazio...

Dataset publicly available

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