adults who do not go online at home or anywhere else.
Method of interview
Computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI)
Supplementary notes
* The original survey question was, "In the past year, have you asked someone else to send an email for you, get information from the internet for you, or make a purchase from the internet on your behalf?" ** n(2016) = 293; n(2017) = 305; n(2018) = 280; n (2019) = 227
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Proxy use of the internet among non-users in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016-2019
This statistic displays the findings of a survey on the proxy use of the internet among non-users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2016 to 2019. In 2019, ** percent of respondents reported not having asked someone to do something for them online as opposed to ** percent of respondents in 2016.
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