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Understanding Online Indians and their Net Usage Behavior and Preferences
Study Overview
• Most recent estimates of Internet user-ship in urban and rural India. Estimates based on
a land survey conducted between Dec 2008–Jan 2009 among 135,000 individuals from 16,000 households in
40 cities and over 12,000 households in 480 villages spread across all the 4 regions of the country
• Understanding of online Indians as ‘consumers’ and not just as faceless net users.
Includes their socio-economic status, online shopping behavior, and website and media preferences
reported on the ‘most used’ basis
¾ Net usage dynamics, behavior and website preferences were captured from the ‘actual’ internet
users form JuxtConsult’s own Internet User Panel (www.getcounted.net)
¾ Demographic ‘weights’ derived from the land survey were then used to make the online panel and
survey data representative of the entire online urban population (and not just of the online panel
members)
¾ Representation ‘weights’ were derived based on 6 demographic parameters - town class, SEC,
region, gender, age and preferred language of reading
¾ Only authentic Govt. of India data (NSSO/Census/RGI) were used for estimation of user-ship and
derivation of representation ‘weights’
Topline Findings
Pond gets smaller, but livelier…
¾ ‘All’ internet users down at 47 million (39 million urban, 8 million rural)
¾ Just 10% growth in ‘regular’ users base*, reaching 38.5 mn (33 mn urban)
¾ +3.5 mn regular ‘urban’ users over last year, +0.4 mn regular ‘rural’ users
¾ 15% growth in ‘daily’ internet users (+4.2 mn in last 1 year to reach 32 mn)
* Regular internet users = internet users who use the internet ‘at least once a month’
** All internet users = Regular + Occasional internet users who have ‘used the internet in last one year’
Lapsers predominantly Cybercafe users
¾ Exclusive cybercafé user base shrink to become just 6% of all internet users
¾ Lapsers from cyber cafe account for most of the internet lapsers in last one
year
¾ Office continues to be the place from where internet is accessed the most
(68% at ‘multiple’ access point level)
¾ 4 out of 5 online Indian are in the ‘prime’ of their life (19-35 years)
¾ Their average monthly family income is 3.2 times the national average
¾ 3 out of 4 of them come from the non-metro towns and nearby villages
Household Assets % Internet Users Owning
Color TV 78%
Mobile Phone 72%
Bank Account 68%
Computer/Laptop 71%
Fridge 53%
Life Insurance 46%
2-Wheeler 51%
Credit Card 25%
Air Conditioner 13%
4-Wheeler 10%
Invested in Shares 14%
What they do when online…
Top 10 Online Activities* % Undertaking Change from 2008
¾ On an average net users undertakes 13 activities online (2 less than last year)
¾ Main gainers are dating/friendship, check cricket content, PC to PC net telephony and downloading mobile content.
Main losers are download music, check business & financial news, check sports other than cricket, check cinema content
and professional networking
¾ 42% use a local Indian language website (+8% over last year)
* Emailing not included as all panel members are email users by default
Most net users ‘window shop’ online
¾ 89% of all regular online Indians ‘shop’ online (search or buy)
¾ 20% have also bought online in last 1 year, i.e., ‘active’ online buyers base of 7.6
million
¾ 65% of online ‘buyers’ have bought a travel product online and 50% have bought a
non-travel product online
¾ 74% of travel buyers have bought train tickets, 34% air tickets
¾ Less than 1 in 5 ‘non-buying’ online shoppers cite ‘fear of misuse of credit card’
as a reason for not buying online
Google continues to be the most used website of all!
Note: Completion of any supplement report is subject to collection of sufficient sample responses in the survey.
Pricing of Reports
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* 12.36% service tax extra
Main + 2-4 Supplementary Reports Less 15% of list price Less 15% of list price
Main + 5 or more Supplementary Reports Less 25% of list price Less 25% of list price
Note - only supplement reports cannot be bought in isolation (without the main report).
¾ Online marketing stimulus responded to (banner ads, search ads, virals, contest, e-mailers, newsletters)
¾ Internet usage in local Indian languages
9 Popular languages of internet usage, most used websites for each of these languages
¾ Blogging & online community membership
9 Proportion of internet users reading, commenting and owning blogs
9 Proportion of internet users as members of online communities
¾ Main problems faced while surfing the Internet
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