individuals who have used storage space on the Internet to share or save
Method of interview
Face-to-face interview
Supplementary notes
* The source indicates: "The source of this information is the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OLS). The OLS is a multi-purpose survey developed by ONS for use by government departments, other public bodies, charities, academics and the media. It provides a fast, cost effective and reliable way of obtaining information on topics too brief to warrant their own survey."
** The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey is carried out by interviewing a nationally representative sample of households in Great Britain. About 1,800 households are sampled each month and estimates are subject to sampling variability, as are those from all sample surveys.
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Reasons for online file sharing and saving in Great Britain 2014, by age
This statistic shows the reasons for saving or sharing files on the internet in Great Britain in 2014, by user age. Of respondents aged 25 to 34, ** percent cited protecting against data loss as their motivation for using online data storage services.
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