Among 827 million residents who only received middle school education or lower, excluding those who are still in school and preschoolers, 378 million or 45.7% are online. Furthermore, 40 million or 16.6% of the 241 million silver users aged above 60 years old are online.
Low education users
The internet has greatly affected users' sleeping behavior. Previously, those live in low-tier cities and rural areas were used to sleep much earlier than in so-called night owls in first-tier cities as they get off duty earlier. However, nowadays, a majority of the former have late bedtimes, which is translated as 44% slept late after midnight as compared with 57.5% in first-tier cities.
Speaking of the 378 million users who only received middle school education or lower, in other words, internet penetration has reached 45.7% among this group. Only 34.4% of users with low education background have a steady job compared with 71.8% of users with a bachelor's degree. Only 24% of users with lo...
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