The table and bar chart below show the survey data of how and where 1600 Australian students used computers. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table and chart illustrate how and where 1600

students

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in Australia used

computers

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from 2001 to 2002. By and large, it is evident that there was a considerable increase in the usage of online facilities and the

Internet

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for assignment submissions, and

students

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mostly used their

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at home. In 2001, 1038

students

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, accounting for 65 per cent of the total number of 1600

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participating in the survey, used online facilities.

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, only 20 per cent used the

internet

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to hand in their work. By 2002, the number of people utilizing the

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skyrocketed to 96 per cent

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the figure for those submitting their work via the

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experienced an almost five-fold growth to 1568

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. As can be seen from the bar chart, there was a dramatic rise in the number of

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using their

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at home, from 800 in 2001 to more than 1200 in 2002.

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, the usage of

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at university experienced a slight decline to 350,

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the figure for those who did not possess a computer plummeted from just under 400 to only around 50 in 2002.