Global Reach/Egypt survey

Do you use the internet

3976 Responses - 1.6% margin of error

Our respondents who used the internet

Top reasons for using the internet

2363 Responses - 2% margin of error

Non-internet users: Why aren't you using it?

1613 Responses - 2.5% margin of error

A new survey question. Many of those who aren't using the internet yet are either concerned about the cost, or don't see what value it has for them.

Awareness of Wikipedia

3976 Responses - 1.6% margin of error

In Egypt, awareness of Wikipedia is lower than any other country we surveyed.

How they learned about Wikipedia

665 Responses - 3.8% margin of error

Of the respondents who had heard of Wikipedia, we asked how they had found out about it. The internet is the primary way people in Egypt learn about Wikipedia.

Reasons for using Wikipedia

564 Responses - 4.1% margin of error

Frequency of use

665 Responses - 3.8% margin of error

The results of this question are used further in the survey to ask additional questions of the infrequent or non-users and learn more about their perspectives. This also provides more detail around the overall awareness issue - showing how many use it vs those who don't.

How interested were the infrequent / non-users

288 Responses - 5.9% margin of error

For the respondents who said 'rarely' or 'never' to how often they use Wikipedia, we asked about their interest in Wikipedia. We wanted to see if people who didn't use it just didn't care, or wanted to but experienced some barrier.

For those users with some interest, what was the biggest barrier

109 Responses - 9.5% margin of error

For the respondents who said 'rarely' or 'never' to how often they use Wikipedia, and also said they had some level of interest in Wikipedia, we asked them what they felt the largest barrier was.

For those users with no interest, what would make them more likely to use Wikipedia

117 Responses - 9.1% margin of error

For the respondents who said 'rarely' or 'never' to how often they use Wikipedia, and also said they had no interest in Wikipedia, we asked them what changes would make them more likely to use Wikipedia

Smartphones vs Feature phones

3976 Responses - 1.6% margin of error

To avoid differences of interpretation of what exactly a smartphone is, we instead focused on whether their mobile phone could possibly access the internet. This is the key differentiator between feature phones and smart phones, as well as identifying who might be able to access Wikipedia on the internet. Egypt has a particularly low level of smartphones.