A survey on Internet Usage among 18 to 30 years old Takupans.

The Internet, also called "the Net" is a worldwide system of networks in computer is a
linkage of networks in which users at any place can be connected to other computers and get
information from any other partys computer. The original aim was to create a network that
would allow users of a research computer at one university to communicate to research
computers at other universities because messages could be routed and rerouted in many
directions, the network could continue to work even if parts of it were destroyed. The Internet
is a public, cooperative and self-sustaining facility accessible to billions of people around the
globe. This internet uses a portion of the total resources of the current public
telecommunication networks. For most internet users, electronic mails practically is replacing
the postal service for short written transactions. Using the internet you have access to billions
of pages of information. The Internet has continued to grow and evolve over the years of its
existence.
Internet Usage-Internet usage is the measurement of the amount of data transferring through
your computer and the Internet network for a defined time. These data are transferred in two
directions: from the Internet network to our computer (download), and from our computer to
the internet network (upload). It could referring to surfing the net, sending emails, online
games, various downloads or using network gaming consoles, any activity on the net
generates internet usage.
a)

Explain how you select the sample to ensure it is representative of the population.

Cluster Sampling(probability sampling) Method will be used to get the most relevant sample
for this study. This will be done by focusing twenty villages on the island and in every village
twenty five young Takupa will be given the questionnaire for the survey. The reason for
choosing this method is due to the number of sample involved in this survey is big. About one
third of the total population is aged between 18 to 30 years and that will be 50,000. If the
survey is taking 1% of them then we need to collect 500 set of complete questionnaires filled
up. The Cluster Sampling will overcome the constraints of money and time. The
questionnaires will be posted to all the selected young Takupa in the sample villages and the
completed questionnaires will then be posted back to the surveyor. The results from the
sample will be generalised and inductively project to a larger group of the whole population
in this small island. This method of sampling can be cost effective and can be administered to

large groups of people. The assurance of anonymity in posting out the questionnaires will
increases the likelihood that the responses are genuine and reflective of the opinions,
perception and beliefs of respondents.
b)

Five research questions.

Constructing a few good research questions is the priority step in a research process. These
research questions have to be well written and they will guide the research project and assist
in the construction of a logical argument. The characteristics of the research questions are
question accuracy, focuses which summarizes the issue that will be investigated. Some
research questions express out the researchers intention onto the relationship of particular
variables with the appropriated theories and concepts. Some research questions are intended
to open an area for possibilities to house new theories and concepts. Creating a research
question is a hard task, good research questions are built and worked on. We have to start
with what interests us, and we will then refine it until it is workable. The research questions
for this research are as below.
1. What is internet usage towards the young community of Takupa( those between
the age of 18 and 30)?
2. Where do the young community of Takupa normally search the internet?
3. When they are online, what kind of activites do they normally do?
4. How does this internet usage benefited to their quality of life?
5. What are the drawbacks of heavy internet usage towards this young community of
Takupans?

c)

Five demographic variables

1. Marital Status of the internet users. Whether the user of the internet are married or

single might have some influences in this case.

2. Educational qualification of the internet users. Here is referring to their highest
academic qualifications such as tertiary education, secondary education, primary education or
non-formal education at all.
3. Monthly income of the internet users. The sample will be subdivided to classes
with different ranges of their income such as RM500 to RM1500, RM1501 to RM2500,
RM2501 to RM3500 and above RM3500.

4. Working hours of the internet users. It is regarding how many hour they spend for
their everyday working.
5. Gender of the internet users in this group of young community of Takupans. The
gender for the selected sample in the group of young Takupans will be recorded as male or
female.

d)

Ten questions in the questionnaire in order to obtain information about the

characteristics of a particular group.

A set of formal questionnaire is a survey instrument or tool used to collect data from
individuals or from a group of social unit such as in school or community. A standardized
questionnaire is when every respondent is distributed to the same questions and the same
system of coding their responses. The differences in responses to the questions exposed can
then be interpreted as a representation of the differences among the respondents. The main
way of collecting this information and data is by asking people questions, either through oral
interviews (face to face or telephone) or by self-written questionnaires or both. The ten
questions that will be included in this questionnaire are as follow.

1. What is your gender?

2. What is your marital status?
3. Who do you spend most of your free time with?
4. What is your highest education qualification?
5. What is your monthly income?
6. How much is the percentage from your income is spend for internet every month?
7. What is your most frequent purpose to go on internet?
8. How many hour do you spend on internet game in one week?
9. How many hour do you work in one day?
10. Is your job required you to use computer most of the time?

e)

Reasons to choose these ten questions.

Q1. What is your gender?

The gender question is included in this questionnaire to see any difference between the
internet usage of the male and the female of this young Takupans.
Q2. What is your marital status?
The second question is with the aim that to see whether the internet users are mostly with
bachelor or married status. This is with the purpose of finding out the relationship between
the marital statuses with the internet usage.
Q3. Who do you spend most of your free time with?
Would like to find out if most of the young Takupans spend their free time with whom. This
is to see whether the respondents are using the internet because they are bored and just filling
up their time by making themselves busy on the internet. If the respondents spend most of
their free time with the families and friends that means the feeling of bore in life can be
ignored.
Q4. What is your highest education qualification?
To see if there is a relationship between educational qualifications will affect the time spend
on the internet. This is essential as we could find out that which categories of the respondents
are more likely to use internet. As education qualifications do representing the cognitive
levels of the people in general so this will provide a very good indicator on how this internet
usage is relating to this.
Q5. What is your monthly income?
To see any influence between their income and the internet usage in term of time. As at
certain degree the usage of the internet do involve some expenses every month. In order to
see the relationship the frequencies of each category of internet users will be analysed. The
using of internet is it really a costly commitment for the young Takupans.
Q6. How much is the percentage from your income is spend for internet every month?
To see the weight of internet and the importance of internet to these individuals. In order to
find out that how importance is internet for this group of Takupa. As we could see nowadays
internet has become more and more importance especially to the youngsters, some of them

even spend a big portion of their income for the internet service. The mind-set of this
respondent group are an indicator for us.
Q7. What is your most frequent purpose to go on internet?
To see the main reasons they connect and stay connected on the internet. The main purpose
for them to use internet will be asked in the questionnaire. This is to see what they actually
want from the internet. The activities could be searching for information, looking for a
location, online shopping, online studies, chatting with friends or purely for entertainments.
Q8. How many hour do you spend on internet game in one week?
This question is especially designed to check the misuse of the internet by them. In order to
judge that this group of young community from the Takupa is wisely allocating the ideal
duration of time for themselves to use the internet or not.
Q9. How many hour do you work in one day?
To see whether their daily internet usage is dependent on their working hours in a day. As the
working hours will affect their free time and this will influence the time they spend on the
internet.
Q10. Is your job required you to use computer most of the time?
To check whether their daily work involve using computer and internet. The reason of having
this question is to determine the relationship between the type of jobs and the rate of internet
usage among the young Takupa. If the type of jobs require a long hours of computer using
that might also increase the rate of internet usage.