Better access to information, improved keyboard skills, making homework time more efficient and fostering a desire to learn, are just some of the reasons why computers and the Internet are scoring top grades with parents and teens alike.

Intel Canada's "Teens, Education and Computer Use at Home Survey 2002," shows that a computer with Internet access has become an invaluable homework-helping resource for Canadian kids. Teens with Internet access are now spending over half (57%) of their total homework time on the computer gathering information for school assignments and writing reports and papers.

Although 76% of Canadian kids surveyed have to share a computer with others in the household, once they get online, Google, Yahoo and MSN are teens' preferred search engines, with Encarta, National Geographic, dictionary.com and NASA being favourite homework-helping websites.

And while male teens are significantly more likely to have their own PC (29% compared with 20% for girls), girls still spend more time on their homework and more hours per week using the computer for homework assignments.

For a complete download of the "Teens, Education and Computer Use at Home Survey 2002" click here. [PDF, 667KB]

Intel Canada's Teens, Education and Computer Use at Home survey was conducted by Ipsos-NPD Canada Inc. during the period July 23-August 1, 2002. 427 online surveys were completed with parents and their teen, age 12-17 years, from across Canada. The data from this sample can be generalized to the population of Canadian Households with Internet Access in which there is at least one teen between 12 and 17. A sample of 100 has an error of + or - 4.7% 19 times out of 20.

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