Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, September 16, 2021
Age, education, and teamwork favor working from home
Those who are working from home are demographically distinct from those who are not. We found many demographic differences in our survey of 13,918 respondents across the US, Germany, UK, Japan, and China for TUP/Technology User Profile 2021.
Workers working from home are younger than workers not working from home and those not employed outside the home. Those working from home are also more likely to have a partner and higher educational attainment.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, April 2, 2021
How prevalent are educational activities with tablets? Are more adult’s tablets being used for educational activities for adults or for children? This MetaFAQs details the percentage of adults doing adult’s and children’s educational activities with tablets in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.
About MetaFAQs
MetaFAQs are answers to frequently asked questions about technology users. The research results showcase the TUP/Technology User Profile study, MetaFacts’ survey of a representative sample of online adults profiling the full market’s use of technology products and services. The current wave of TUP is TUP/Technology User Profile 2020, which is TUP’s 38th annual.
Current subscribers may use the comprehensive TUP datasets to obtain even more results or tailor these results to fit their chosen segments, services, or products. As subscribers choose, they may use the TUP inquiry service, online interactive tools, or analysis previously published by MetaFacts.
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Indexing
TUP Lenses: Tablets, Activities, Households
Tags: Tablets, Activities, Tablet Activities, Education, Children
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, March 25, 2021
American parents of school-age children actively use home PCs. There is a difference by whether the adult is male or female. This MetaFAQs reports on the number of home PCs being actively used among adults with school-age children (age 6-17) split by the gender of the adult.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, March 24, 2021
There are many ways for school-age children to get help with their schoolwork. This MetaFAQs looks at the connected devices that adults regularly use to help – PCs, smartphones, or tablets.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, March 23, 2021
During pandemic times, many school-age children, especially younger ones, are getting their education at home. This MetaFAQs reports on adults’ connected devices for children’s schoolwork and other educational activities. We have split the results by device type – home PC, smartphone, tablet, or work PC – and country – the US, Germany, the UK, and Japan.
About MetaFAQs
MetaFAQs are answers to frequently asked questions about technology users. The research results showcase the TUP/Technology User Profile study, MetaFacts’ survey of a representative sample of online adults profiling the full market’s use of technology products and services. The current wave of TUP is TUP/Technology User Profile 2020, which is TUP’s 38th annual.
Current subscribers may use the comprehensive TUP datasets to obtain even more results or tailor these results to fit their chosen segments, services, or products. As subscribers choose, they may use the TUP inquiry service, online interactive tools, or analysis previously published by MetaFacts.
On request, interested research professionals can receive complimentary updates through our periodic newsletter. These include MetaFAQs – brief answers to frequently asked questions about technology users – or TUPdates – analysis of current and essential technology industry topics. To subscribe, contact MetaFacts.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, March 20, 2021
Do more or fewer Dads use technology products than Moms? If there are differences, which devices are used most often by either? Is there much of a gap in their usage? This MetaFAQs reports on the penetration of crucial connected devices among adults with school-age children (6-17) by gender.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, November 16, 2020
Home printers are used for a wide variety of activities. Those involving children – from homework to photos – spur higher printer usage. This MetaFAQs reports on the average number of pages being printed with home printers in the US, split by whether or not there are children in the household.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, October 25, 2020
Chromebooks have been offered as a low-cost alternative to full-featured Windows and Apple notebooks. One often-cited segment includes students and their parents. This MetaFAQs looks into the active installed base of Chromebooks among parents in the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, and China.
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By Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, April 24, 2020
Busy parents are busier than ever
Parents are busier than ever with the many stay-at-home conditions and school closures across the US now.
Two days ago (April 22, 2020), we surveyed 322 online adults with children 18 or younger. We asked them about the computing devices in their homes, how they share them, what they plan to buy in the next few months, and how an additional home PC might affect their home.
Most parents say they have enough computing devices at home. Nearly two-thirds (61%) have as many or more PCs or tablets as people. Many parents said an additional personal PC is not really wanted, as most (35%) say it would make no difference and feel they have enough (12%).
Those few who would welcome a new home computer value several benefits. One-sixth (16%) expect more efficiency – getting more done with less effort, whether it is more schoolwork or for work from home. Almost as many (14%) expect they would have to share the PCs they have less often. They predict there would be fewer fights between their children. (and who wouldn’t appreciate that!).
Yours, mine, and mine
With the many PCs they have in their home, we asked how and if they share them amongst themselves.
More than half (55%) share PCs, with higher priority given to schoolwork (34%) and working from home (25%). Another half (48%) do not regularly share PCs.
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Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, December 1, 2017
Who can quantify the pride or commitment of a parent? On social networks, I often see a parent sharing their happiness about their child reaching an educational milestone.
One measure of parental pride, dedication, or support could include the investment they make in tools to help their children grow and learn. Technology spending among adults with children continues to increase, and especially so among those with younger school-age children.
As released in our most recent wave of TUP/Technology User Profile – 2017 – our research shows that spending on home technology devices and services has increased both in volume and breadth. The number of connected adults with school-age children has grown, and so has their average tech spending. In TUP 2015, we found that 72.5 million connected adults were in households with children. That grew to 81.2 million, as ascertained in our TUP 2017 wave.
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