Benefits of the Internet

Perhaps most surprisingly this year is the drop in the perceived social benefit of being able to work from home. Use less paper, cloud services and meet new people online were the other benefits with the largest decrease.

Even with the downward trend of perceived benefits; 86% of New Zealanders say that the positives of the Internet outweigh the negatives.

Younger New Zealanders are less likely to perceive the key benefits of the Internet - this may be because they've never known life without it. Females are also more likely to see benefits than males.

Access to news and current events continues to be the most important type of information the Internet offers.