statistics2004to2005

TIME MAGAZINE 12th June 2006 published more of their enigmatic stats:
9	million British men downloaded pornography from the Internet, last year.
1.4	million British women -ditto-
	Our assumptions
Population of the UK	60,000,000
Lifespan	72	years
so born PER YEAR	833,333
50% are male and 50% female	50%	50%

Men who downloaded images in 2005	9,000,000	1,400,000	Women who downloaded images in 2005
Males born per year	416,667	416,667	Females born per year
	AGE	AGE
Interested in sex with access to Internet from	14	14	Interested in sex with access to Internet from
to	80	54	to
years	66	40	years

Adult sexual males	27,500,000	16,666,667	Adult sexual females
Males with private/home access to the internet?	33%	20%	Women with private/home access to the internet?
Men with private access	9,075,000	3,333,333	Women with private access
Use pornography	100%	42%	Use pornography
	UK	UK

UK On-Line – Richard `Adams in the Guardian – 22 May 06

These statistics were published by Technology Guardian on the 15th September 2005.

ITEM	THEN	NOW
E-Bay	In 2000 there were £43 million of transactions.	Forecast for 2005 is £4 billion or 93 times more.


Digital TV	In 2000 15% of homes had digital TV	In 2005 61.9% have digital TV
Hours shopping		1 of every 5 hours shopping is now on the Internet

Video Games 56% of users are aged from 24 to 44	In 1996 £350M of videogames were sold in the UK	In 2004 £1.2 billion of Videogames were sold. 3.5 times more than in 1996.

Mobile Phones	2000 There were 40 million UK customers	2004 There were 60 million, or most of the population.
Broadband Connections	2001 1.4M	2004 6.2M (about 1/3^rd of households)

Digital Cameras	2001 935,000 UK customers	2006 forecast 5,964,348

EU teleworkers 1999-2005 - Empirica – 8 March 06

Werner B Korte, Director of Empirica, Bonn, presented the following statistics at a conference in Helsinki in September 2001. (Transcribed by SW2000)

	Teleworkers as % of total workforce 1999 2005
%		FIN		NL		SW		DK		D		UK		EU10		IRL		I		E		F
35
30
25			29		25		24
20		17							19
15				15		15		11			13		12		11
10										6		8		6			8		7
5																4		4			5		5
0																				3		3
0

		Regular and supplementary teleworkers as % of workforce - as presented in 2001
		R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S
%		10.8	6.0	8.3	6.3	8.0	7.2	6.6	3.9	4.4	1.6	4.8	2.8	4.1	2.0	1.9	2.6	2.9	0.7	2.3	0.6	2.0	0.8

UK teleworkers 2005 – 8 March 06

Extract from a BBC report 6 Oct 2005, which errs on (1) SW2000 Telework Studies counted UK teleworkers in 1990 & 1992. The EC conducted and published several surveys from 1993-1995 (2) There was 8% of the workforce teleworking in 1997 – not 4% (3) This report relies on flimsy estimates in ‘Labour Market Trends’ which in turn was based on guesses not surveys. (4) No account has been taken of independent polls by Gallup and others (5) No correlation has been made with mobile-phone, mobile-computers and other mobile-tools statistics. (6) No base-line is indicated, of what was ‘fixed place’ working before the advent of telework. The realistic number of people teleworking in 2005, at home, in their vehicles, out of hotels, at customer’s offices etc is nearer the US figures (30%+) and can conservatively be estimated at more than 18% of the workforce, or about 4.3 million UK teleworkers.

Rising numbers

Teleworkers were first counted back in 1997.

Teleworkers graph

Then, just 921,000 people said they used telephones or computers to let them work at home or to use their homes as a base for work.

Of these, 737,000 said they couldn't in fact work like this without both a computer and phone.

But by early 2005 the number of teleworkers had shot up to 2,377,000.

And most - 2.1 million - said they depended on their digital technology to work from home.

As a result all teleworkers now make up 8% of the working population, up from 4% in 1997.

However, Alexandra Jones of the Work Foundation says: "It's not as big a rise as some people were once predicting during the hype of the dot-com boom."

US telework statistics 2005 – posted 27 Feb 06.

An extract, courtesy of ITAC. For the full report go to the ITAC site:

http://www.workingfromanywhere.org/news/pr100405.htm

Research conducted for ITAC by The Dieringer Research Group as part of Dieringer’s 2005 American Interactive Consumer Survey.

The national survey was conducted from August 15 – September 1, 2005. The survey asked respondents to check up to 13 different locations where they may have conducted work in the past month. The survey found that out of 135.4 million American workers:

45.1 million worked from home,
24.3 million people worked at client’s or customer’s place of business,
20.6 million in their car,
16.3 million while on vacation,
15.1 million at a park or outdoor location, and
7.8 million while on a train or airplane

Among the 45.1 million Americans working from home (33.3% - NB – This will include traditional non-computer working, usually simple, piece-work; addressing envelopes, wrapping gifts etc ), the average number of locations they work from is 3.4.

This survey demonstrates that millions of Americans are embracing telework – the ability to work from anywhere. Other terms relating to telework include telecommuting (work at home), virtual work and mobile work.

“The ability for people to work from anywhere is attributed in part to increasing availability of portable computer and high-speed communication technologies,“ said Robert Smith, Director of ITAC. “For example, the use of broadband in the home by teleworkers increased by over 60% during the past year resulting in 25.6 million home-based teleworkers with high speed access.”

UK & EU Houses - 4 Nov 2005.

The mobility of Teleworking and advanced telecoms has evened out price differentials between UK regions and the process continues. This will happen across the world. The Information Society is a powerful influence on the cost and value of our homes.
UK Housing Market - Source – TheGuardian Oct 31 2005. Compiled by Grundy Northedge
40 years increase 51 times. (Retail prices have risen x 13)	Average home price today £170,000	First time buyers pay £157,000	House Owning
			Spain	92%
Homes 2004	25,000,000		Greece	90%
New homes built 2003/04	190,067		Ireland	83%
			Italy	83%
Mortgaged homes for rent 2004	526,000		UK	77%
			Austria	71%
Total Value	£3,221,000,000	55% of national assets.	France	71%
Mortgage debt AUG 2005	£932,000,000		Netherlands	64%
			Germany	57%
			15 nation EU Average	74%

The Oxford Internet Survey May 2005. Extracts 17 Oct 2005.

UK Survey 2005. The Internet in Britain – The Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) May 2005. www.oii.ox.ac.uk - extracts by SW2000 Telework Studies. For the full report email oxis@oii.ac.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 1865 287229 free download from www.oii.ac.uk/research/ Oxford Internet Institute

Sample – 2005 – Random sample across UK. 3,426 homes visited. Interviewed first available resident over 14 years old. 2,190 productive interviews. Interviews by ICM.

INTERNET USERS	UK 2005.
Broadband at Home	59%
Internet at Home – persons	61%
Internet at Home - houses	36%
Internet via telephone	87%
Homes with computers	66%
Computer used daily at home	46%
Internet users with a mobile phone	85%
Internet users with email	92%
Made your own webpage? NO	82%
Written a computer programme NO	85%

INTERNET USES
Check E-Mail	92%
News, information, local events	66%
Health information	25%
Book and buy travel tickets	71%
Download – Music	54%	Downloads have soared since May 05.
Download – Video	33%	Onto Ipod and other MP3 players.
Download – Radio	33%
Look for facts/research	78%
Bank online	45%
Pay bills on line	39%
Invest on line	10%
Buy products on line	74%
WHY? - Wider choice of goods	54%
Lower prices	53%
Distance Learning (IDLE?)	21%
Used an E-Government Service YES	39%
In favour of E-voting	43%
News on-line – never printed YES	20%
Pay for news on-line YES	1%
Search by specific web address?	60%
Search by search engine query?	60%
Met new friends on-line? YES	20%
Computers important in daily life YES	63%
Is Internet a threat to privacy? YES	49%
BIG BROTHER
Who should control children’s access?
PARENTS	95%
GOVERNMENT	46%

Users with poor education	27%
Users with good education	83%
Males who use the internet	63%
Females who use the internet	57%
Pupils – school age - who use internet	97%
Retirees – (no job 55+) who use internet	30%
SEX
In this UK OxIS survey 13% access sex sites – but the UK survey below, 17^th May 05, Pornography on the Net, shows 87% of men and 56% of women have accessed sex sites – the survey concluded that sexual curiosity had been a significant motive for getting on-line. Maybe it’s the way the question is asked? Or, perhaps more likely, sex-sites occupy 13% of the total time on-line of 87% of men and 56% of women? Theories on a postcard please and emailed to OII.

Defining US Poverty – 81 million poor – 17 Oct 05.

USA	Family of 4	Family of 3	Single person
Poverty income	$19,307 a year	$15,067 a year	$9,645 a year

Below the Line	Detroit	33.6%
	El Paso	28.8%
	Miami	28.3%
	Newark	28.1%
	Atlanta	27.8%
	Long Beach	26.4%
	Milwaukee	26.0%
	Buffalo	25.9%
	Philadelphia	24.9%
	Memphis	24.6%	Population
		274.4	295,734,130
Simple Average		27.4%	81,031,151
Median US Household Income		$44,400 a year
Source – The Guardian – 17 Oct 2005.

GOOGLING MICROSOFT – 26^th August 05

“War” and a “battle” has been declared between Microsoft and Google – according to the media. Here are a few comparisons by Jason Rodrigues and journalists Owen Gibson and Richard Wray at the Guardian, UK.

	GOOGLE	MICROSOFT

Market Capitalisation	$78 billion
Market penetration Global		95%
Market penetration UK	60.0%	10%	MSN
Market penetration US	36.5%	15.5%	MSN
Company worth	$8.6 billion	$59.9 billion
Online advertising world $15B	$3.2 billion
Founders are worth	$20 billion	$46 billion	Bill Gates only
Staff worldwide	4,183	57,000
Net Income (profits) annually	$399 million	$12,254 million

But then Bill has many more salaries to pay:

57,000 people x say, $75,000 = $4,275,000,000 is $4.27 billion

Where to go on vacation – labour rates around the world – 26^th August 05

	US$	UK£ at $1.80
European Union	24.1	13.4
America	22.0	12.2
Britain	20.4	11.3
Japan	20.1	11.1
Spain	15.0	8.3
South Korea	10.3	5.7
Singapore	7.4	4.1
Portugal	6.2	3.4
Taiwan	5.8	3.2
Hong Kong	5.5	3.0
Czech Republic	4.7	2.6
Brazil	2.7	1.5
Mexico	2.5	1.4
China (Shanghai)	2.1	1.2
China (Guangdong)	1.5	0.8
China (urban)	1.1	0.6
China (average)	0.7	0.4
China (rural)	0.5	0.2
India	0.3	0.2
Average	8.0	4.4

(source Sunday Times UK from US Department of Labor, Standard Chartered Bank.)

UK Flexi-Work – Telework, Term-Time, Part-Time etc – 5^th July 2005.

Full text at GuardianUnlimited.co.uk – search for “Nine-to-five in decline as UK embraces flexi-time” by Lucy Ward and Phillip Inman.

Pornography on the Net – 17^th May 05

Accompanying News Item at: http://www.noelhodson.com\index_files\NEWS.htm 17^th May 2005

E-Commerce, Internet Trading and Video-Conferencing – 26^th April 05

UK - The Sunday Times of April 24^th 2005 published a report by Paul Durman on the growth of internet trading. Here are the statistics extracted from the report:

Annual Advertising Spend – UK – 2004

Source – Interactive Advertising Bureau UK for the Sunday Times

3.9% Internet - £653.4M

5.0% Outdoor

6.4% Directories

14.6% Direct Mail

19.3% Press Classified

22.1% Press Display

23.9% Television

0.9% Cinema

3.8% Radio

99.9%

Spam and Junk Mail – 3^rd Feb 2005.

USA slips back in the broadband race – Friday 3 September 2004.

Wrinkly old World – Population shifts 1990-2090 – posted 19 July 2004.

Interactive EXCEL download version free on the home page – www.noelhodson.com


						19th July 2004
	Population Shift in 20 year stages - With implications for housing
		Copyright 2004 Noel Hodson www.noelhodson.com
				Change the variables in the coloured cells e.g.	1.6	Births per family
	20	years per generation.			FF's 1990	124,137,780	20%
EU & US Total Population		620,667,800	1990	av lifespan	All 65+ 1990	86,404,300	14%
Deaths one year		8,620,386	1991	72		2010
Deaths in 20 years		172,407,722	90-2010		Fertile Females 15-40	114,582,601	17%
Births/generation	1.7	211,034,226	90-2010		All 65+	100,037,962	15%
Total population	2010	659,294,304	2010
Young deaths	10.00%
Deaths in 20 years		180,628,576	2011-30	73		2030
Births/generation	1.6	183,332,162	2011-30		Fertile Females 15-40	46,291,371	7%
Total population	2030	661,997,890	2030		All 65+	114,971,670	17%
Young deaths	9.00%
Deaths in 20 years		176,532,771	2031-50	75		2050
Births/generation	1.5	69,437,056	2031-50		Fertile Females 15-40	18,111,499	3%
Total population	2050	554,902,175	2050		All 65+	132,602,518	24%
Young deaths	8.00%
Deaths in 20 years		144,130,435	2051-70	77		2070
Births/generation	1.4	155,377,891	2051-70		Fertile Females 15-40	23,432,981	4%
Total population	2070	566,149,631	2070		All 65+	149,475,804	26%
Young deaths	7.00%
Deaths in 20 years		143,329,021	2071-90	79		2090
Births/generation	1.3	147,203,908	2071-90		Fertile Females 15-40	23,455,094	4%
Total population	2090	570,024,519	2090		All 65+	168,720,042	30%
Young deaths	6.00%
	All deaths are not affected by Young Deaths, which only alter the numbers of 65 +

US Government Departments – Teleworkers reported in June 2004.

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

I am pleased to present the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) 2004 report on the status of Telework in the Federal Government. This report summarizes findings from our 2003 agency telework survey and describes the major telework promotion activities undertaken by OPM in partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA).

For the third consecutive year, the number of telework-eligible and teleworking employees continues to grow. Governmentwide, 751,844 Federal employees representing 43 percent of the Federal workforce were telework-eligible in 2003, compared with 625,313 Federal employees representing 35 percent of the Federal workforce in 2002. This represents an increase of 20 percent, or an additional 126,531 identified telework-eligible positions. The actual number of employees teleworking in 2003 was 102,921, representing a 14 percent increase over the number of teleworkers in 2002. Notably, since April 2001, the number of teleworkers has increased from 53,389 to 102,921, an increase of 93 percent in the size of the telecommuting workforce.

Initially, the thrust of developing telework as an employee/employer option centered on environmental goals, enhanced quality of life issues, and recruitment and retention issues. In 2001, President George W. Bush added telework to his New Freedom Initiative, which focused on expanding job opportunities for people with disabilities. In the aftermath of September 11, telework has attracted greater attention by Federal managers as an essential consideration in agencies’ emergency planning efforts, whether for snow storms, other natural disasters, or terrorist attacks. Telework has been integrated into the Federal Government’s Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP), and OPM is laying the groundwork for including telework in its evaluation of agency human resources programs.

For the 2003 report, OPM revised the telework survey instrument to sharpen and clarify definitions and to bring the survey in line with OPM’s strategic focus for telework. Our focus includes recognizing the necessity of telework in emergency planning, the importance of a regularly scheduled and experienced cadre of teleworkers, and the use of occasional telework as a trial assessment period. We also emphasize the necessity for Federal agencies to take responsibility for meeting statutory telework obligations.

We conclude that telework is growing steadily in the Federal Government, whether measured by the number of employees teleworking or by the growing maturity of agency telework programs. Telework is progressively moving into the mainstream as an expected part of an effective agency’s personnel strategy, rather than as a “special” program needing a great deal of external support.

Kay Coles James - Director

	US Gov Agency - June 2004.	All Employees	Eligible	All Telewor-kers	Core Telew-orkers	Situational Teleworkers	Days Core TWRKS	Days Sit TWRKS	Teleworkers in DC Metro Area	Teleworkers Outside DC Metro Area
1	Agency for Int Development	2,174	1,138	167	24	143	4	1	167	0
2	Appraisal Subcommittee	7	6	3	3	0	4	0	3	0
3	Arch and Transport Barriers Compl	28	25	18	1	17	12	4	18	0
4	Forces Retirmt Home DC	603	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Chem Safety & Hazard Invst Bd	33	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Com for Pur from Blind people	29	14	4	3	1	8	4	4	0
7	Commodity Futures Trading Com	534	534	50	0	50	0	4	47	3
8	Consumer Product S Com	452	400	198	193	5	4	5	77	121
9	Corp for Nat & Community Service	585	585	34	11	23	4	5	31	3
10	Court Services and Offender S A	1,000	939	59	55	4	4	0	54	1
11	Def. Nuclear Facilities Safety Bd	98	4	4	0	4	0	5	87	7
12	Department of Agriculture	112,843	74,780	3,434	1,543	1,891	4	2	1,607	1,827
13	Department of Commerce	24,353	17,871	6,921	5,798	1,123	5	4	6,303	329
14	Department of Defense	672,902	150,037	13,879	4,360	9,519	5	3	3,803	10,076
15	Department of Education	4,754	2,707	1,374	174	1,200	12	5	755	619
16	Department of Energy	14,519	1,437	1,437	805	632	3	2	715	722
17	Dept of Health and Human Services	66,686	51,977	9,497	4,860	4,637	6	4	4,512	7,164
18	Department of Homeland Security	53,025	25,803	392	168	224	23	1	172	806
19	Dept of Housing and Urban Dev.	10,127	487	433	401	32	9	8	68	365
20	Department of Interior	81,144	62,598	2,038	635	1,403	8	4	407	1,835
21	Department of Justice	100,400	45,895	2,029	830	1,199	8	3	1,966	9,327
22	Department of Labor	16,141	15,052	5,749	4,631	1,118	16	2	2,249	3,471
23	Department of State	18,310	11,558	170	117	53	4	1	167	3
24	Department of Transportation	58,487	27,078	2,695	1,730	965	4	2	1,136	1,559
25	Department of Treasury	108,533	43,433	30,498	20,353	10,145	7	3	2,589	27,909
26	Department of Veterans Affairs	230,406	124,318	1,415	1,017	398	4	2	0	0
27	Environmental Protection Agency	18,272	17,345	4,986	4,844	142			1,913	3,073
28	Equal Employment Opportunity Com	2,583	1,933	769	566	203	0	0	441	1,492
29	Export-Import Bank of the U.S.	420	420	1	1	0	8	0	1	0
30	Farm Credit Administration	293	293	112	7	105	4	1	46	66
31	Federal Communications Com	2,049	2,049	611	361	250	5	2	521	93
32	Federal Deposit Insurance Corp	5,341	5,341	526	453	73	6	1	189	337

33	Federal Energy Reg Com	1,218	1,142	306	267	39	3	1	264	42
34	Federal Housing Finance Board	106	98	37	9	28	20	3	29	8
35	Federal Labor Relations Authority	208	130	16	13	3	4	1	5	10
36	Federal Maritime Commission	125	125	10	1	9	2	4	10	0
37	Federal Med and Con Service	290	254	118	7	111	13	2	17	101
38	Federal Retr Thrift Invest. Bd	100	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
39	Federal Trade Commission	1,092	800	25	18	7	6	2	25	0
40	General Services Admin	12,800	11,873	2,904	1,318	1,586	6	2	1,325	1,579
41	Holocaust Memorial Museum	400	300	55	14	41	4	2	55	0
42	Inter-American Foundation	49	49	7	5	2	9	2	7	0
43	Int Boundary and Water Com	259	69	1	0	1	0	16	0	69
44	International Trade Com	365	365	38	0	38	0	3	38	0
45	James Madison Foundation	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
46	Japan-US Friendship Com	4	3	3	3	0	12	12	3	0
47	Merit Systems Protect Bd	225	174	47	46	1	2	4	18	29
48	Nat Aeronautics and Space Admin	19,312	15,938	929	471	458	6	10	400	4,189
49	Nat Archives and Records Admin	3,117	3,117	165	58	107	9	4	1,684	1,433
50	National Council on Disability	11	11	8	1	7	2	7	11	0
51	Nat Credit Union Administration	945	160	41	15	26	2	6	56	104
52	National Endowment for the Arts	153	153	51	0	51	0	2	51	0
53	Nat Endowment for the Humanities	170	170	55	15	40	4	2	55	0
54	National Labor Relations Board	1,935	1,334	452	200	252	5	3	87	365
55	National Mediation Board	52	52	15	14	1	4	1	50	2
56	National Science Foundation	1,341	1,160	208	72	136	6	2	190	18
57	Nuclear Regulatory Commission	3,151	3,005	876	174	702	4	1	657	219
58	Nuclear Waste Technical R B	16	15	15	13	2	4	2	15	0
59	Occupational Safety & Health RC	62	55	9	6	3	2	3	5	4
60	Office of Government Ethics	78	77	6	6	0	4	0	6	0
61	Office Nat Drug Control Policy	109	109	4	2	2	15	16	4	0
62	Office of Personnel Management	3,606	2,898	1,542	1,226	316	5	2	537	1,005
63	Office of Special Counsel	98	83	14	8	6	8	3	14	0
64	Overseas Private Invstmnt Corp	205	152	39	24	15	4	2	38	1

65	Peace Corps	916	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
66	Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp	790	339	339	99	240	4	2	339	0
67	Postal Rate Commission	47	6	6	0	6	0	1	6	0
68	Railroad Retirement Board	1,132	317	119	74	45	5	2	0	119
69	Securities and Exchange Com	3,279	3,279	313	90	223	4	0	182	131
70	Selective Service System	166	166	2	2	0	2		2	0
71	Small Business Administration	3,138	3,120	268	122	146	7		97	171
72	Social Security Administration	68,743	14,649	4,375	4,101	274	6	5	741	3,634
73	Tennessee Valley Authority	13,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
74	Trade and Devlp Agency	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	All employees	1,749,998	Eligible	Twrks	Core T's	Sit T's			DC	Ex-DC
	Totals		751,844	102,921	62,438	40,483	5	3	37,080	84,441
			100%	14%	8%	5%			5%	11%

The European Union May 2004

TIME IS MONEY - What you contribute to your company

Telework consultants cite time saved for productive work as the largest single benefit. These two tables indicate one method of valuing your business time – compared to sample results from public companies.

The contribution to the "top-line" is equally valid for people in non-profit making organisations. Most large organisations earn net profits after all costs, overheads and taxes of 5%-10%, so there is only that degree of difference when calculating the personal contribution of civil servants and charitable agencies workers to their employers’ organisations. And no employers hire and retain people who are not making a valuable contribution to the team - there are few passengers inside the modern corporate system.