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Table 3 College students’ internet usage in last month by gender, mobile phone ownership and type of mobile phone

From: ‘We have the internet in our hands’: Bangladeshi college students’ use of ICTs for health information

Variables

Internet user (N = 280)

Internet non-user (N = 156)

p-value (Pearson Chi-square)

 

Number (%)

Number (%)

 

Gender

 Male

185 (66.1)

32 (20.5)

0.000

 Female

95 (33.9)

124 (79.5)

 

Phone ownership

274 (97.9)

129 (82.7)

0.000

Types of Phone

 Smart phone

175 (62.5)

33 (21.2)

0.000

 Feature phone

110 (39.3)

74 (47.4)

0.099

 Basic phone*

10 (3.6)

24 (15.4)

0.000

  1. *It is not clear how this small number of respondents accessed the internet