People in New Zealand who take security measures on the devices they use to connect to the Internet

By measure, 2023, % of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2023, Survey question: Which of the following security precautions do you take with your own devices?, Grouping variable: Total, Category: Total
Response	% of people
Use a pin or password on any or all devices	72.999999999999998%
Regularly update the software	52.000000000000002%
Regularly back up the content	29.999999999999999%
Use two factor or multi factor authentication on any or all accounts	51.000000000000001%
None of these	2.9999999999999999%
Use a password manager	27.000000000000002%
Use unique passwords for every online service	36.9999999999999996%
Use a VPN if connecting to the Internet using a Wi-Fi network you don’t know	14.000000000000001%

Notes

Respondents were asked the following question:
-Which of the following security precautions do you take with your own devices?

Data calculation/treatment

The researchers used a combination of pre-survey quotas and post-survey weighting to ensure results are broadly representative of all New Zealanders by age, gender, region and ethnicity.

For more information

https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/New_Zealand_Internet_insights.pdf

Data provided by

InternetNZ

Dataset name

New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023

Webpage:

https://internetnz.nz/new-zealands-internet-insights/new-zealands-internet-insights-2023/

How to find the data

Internet NZ sent the aggregated data directly to Figure.NZ for the purpose of publication.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023

From the dataset New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023, this data was extracted:

Sheet: Q42
Range: C12:Y21
Provided: 220 data points

This data forms the table Internet - Security precautions used on the Internet 2023.

Dataset originally released on:

February 2024

About this dataset

In 2018 InternetNZ conducted a consolidated research project that incorporated three historical research projects for both the former NZRS, and InternetNZ. This project covered business and consumer use and attitudes towards domain names, as well as public perceptions of the Internet in general. In 2019 they have replicated a section of this research project, to understand any changes in consumer perceptions of the Internet. The survey follows the same processes for 2018, however from 2019 onwards, the survey focused only on consumer use of and perceptions of the Internet.

Method of collection/Data provider

This was a survey a total of 1,001 people online (803 consumers, and 198 consumers who also manage or own a business)
Fieldwork was conducted from 15th to 22nd November 2023.
The maximum margin of error on the total group n=1,001 is +/-3.1% at the 95% confidence interval.

People in New Zealand who take security measures on the devices they use to connect to the Internet

By measure, 2023, % of people

About this data

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