Who Is Using The Internet For Education?

A research conducted by Canada stats, showed that a big portion of adult Canadians are using the internet to get some type of training for educational purposes.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-004-x/2007004/10375-eng.htm#c

The research divided the population into three main groups, this first group are people who went online for some sort of training, education or school related purposes, this groups is about (26%) which is 6.4 million. The second group are all those Canadians that went online but not for education purposes, but for other reasons this is (34%) which is about 8.5 million  Finally the third group are all those Canadians that reported never having accessed internet for personal or non- business reasons which are 7.9 million.

This stats show clearly the massive way in which Canadians are taking advantage of the internet. More than a quarter percent of the adult population was getting online education at the time, this stats were collected in 2005 which is still a pretty big number if we consider the amount of users that keeps on growing every year.

Socioeconomic characteristic 
Education Users 

Average age 
34 years
Sex (% Male) 
50%
Marital status (% Married)
43 %
Education (% university degree)
33 %
Labour force (% employed)
77 %
Family type (% children less than age 18) 
45 %
Location (% urban) 
83 %
Household income greater than $80,000
43 %

This is just to have an idea of what are the kind of people that are more likely to be interested on using the internet for education. This tells us that in fact there is an age factor and that this is being used mostly by young people which could be use to infer that the more young people graduate and the more young people star requiring education the more the online education will increase its demand.