This release presents estimates on household and personal internet use in Australia. The data presented includes:

• households with internet access
• characteristics of persons accessing the internet
• reasons for accessing the internet
• types of goods and services purchased over the internet
• whether the internet was accessed for home based work
• type and mean number of devices used to access the internet at home
• cyber security indicators (new data item for 2016-17), and
• child protection online indicators (new data item for 2016-17).

These data are presented by various demographic and geographic splits.