Three in four Poles use internet regularly: survey

77 percent of Polish people engage with the internet on a regular basis, according to a new opinion poll, published on Thursday.

77 percent of Polish people engage with the internet on a regular basis, says a new opinion poll, published on Thursday.

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This year’s result - 77 percent -  represents an increase of four percentage points on the previous year, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

In 2021, 73 percent of Poles declared regular internet activity.

77 percent of Poles go online regularly 

Over the past two years, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the share of the Polish population who engage with the internet regularly rose by 9 percentage points - from 68 to 77 percent.

As recently as 2002, only 17 percent of Poles reported using the internet regularly, PAP noted.

For the purposes of the poll, regular internet engagement was defined as visiting websites, using messaging apps or using email, at least once a week.  

The survey was conducted by the pollster CBOS in May, on a representative sample of 1,087 adult residents of Poland.

The methods used were: computer-assisted personal interviews (for 58.9 percent of the sample), computer-assisted telephone interviews (28.7 percent) and computer-assisted web interviews (12.4 percent). 

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Source: PAP, cbos.pl