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Internet usage at home, 2011

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The 2011 New Zealand report of the World Internet Project shows the common entertainment activities people used the internet at home for, and how popular they were on a daily, weekly and occasional basis. Surfing the web was the most popular daily activity and something most internet users did daily. Social networking was a reasonably popular daily and weekly activity. All other mass media activities – listening to music, watching videos, films and television and playing games – were an occasional activity. 

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Source: Phillipa Smith, and others, The Internet in New Zealand 2011. Auckland: World Internet Project New Zealand, AUT University, 2011, p. 9

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Kerryn Pollock, Domestic recreation and hobbies – Reading, listening and watching, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/41107/internet-usage-at-home-2011 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 14 March 2013.