Pie Chart of Internet User

You are advised to spend about 40 minutes on this task. You will be assessed on task fulfilment, language and organisation.

You have been asked to write a short report on the use of the Internet in Malaysia. Your report should integrate all the information given below. You should write 150 to 200 words.

Computers have become a part of life for Malaysians. Findings show that there are 10 million Internet users in Malaysia who surf the net on an average of 9 hours per week. Males make up 50.2% and females 49.8% of internet users.

Distribution of Internet Users

Distributions of Internet Users by Activity in Malaysia (2005) (based on multiple responses)

The pie chart shows the distribution of internet user while the table shows the distribution of internet users by activity in Malaysia. There are 10 million internet users in Malaysia who surf the net on an average of 9 hours per week. More male of internet users compare to female users. 50.2% are males users and 49.8% are females users. According to the pie chart, the highest number of internet users is working adults, that’s 34.6% or 3,460,000 users. Among the 5 different distribution of internet user, retirees has the lowest internet users at just only 8.4% or 840,000 users.

The remaining 3 distribution internet users are school-going children, university & college students and housewives & home-employed. There respectively are 25.6% , 17.2% and 14.2% users in this 3 distribution internet users. Based on the table given, the highest number of internet users by activity in year 2005 is E-mail for about 73.7% while education or research is the second highest activity for about 46.8%. In the other hand, only 1.3% of internet users in other activity and this is the lowest number. In conclusion, most of the internet users use the internet in sending E-mail because this is a faster and easily way to communicate with other.