Better Internet for Kids

In this partial report, data from the Parents and Media, and Children and Media surveys in 2024 are presented, which shed light on how parents with children between 1-17 years of age view the regulation of their children's media use, and then explain how children aged 9-18 respond to questions about their parents' regulation of their media use.
(Source: Norwegian Media Authority).

Main findings include: 

Parents and media is a survey about children and young people's digital media habits. The purpose of the survey is to provide an overall presentation of 1–17-year-olds' media use and insight into parents' regulation of children's and young people's everyday media life. Use of social media, games, news habits, age limits and parental control are among the topics surveyed. 

(Source: Norwegian Media Authority).

This report is a partial report that belongs to the Parents and Media 2024 survey. The survey collectively sheds light on a large range of topics related to children's digital everyday life. In this interim report, results are presented in the areas that shed light on children's media habits, as well as their access to equipment and technology. 
(Source: report).

Main findings include: 

The Youth Internet Monitor is an initiative of Saferinternet.at and presents current data on social media usage by young people in Austria. It provides data on which social networks are currently popular with young users in Austria, and includes data on trends and gender differences. According to the 2024 edition, the six social networks most used by young people in Austria are, respectively: WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, and Pinterest.

This report published by Embætti landlæknis (Directorate of Health) explores the effects of pornography access and consumption by children and young people in Iceland. The impact on their health and well-being is assessed to provide recommendations to teachers, educators, parents, and children related to measures to protect youth from sexual and gender-based violence. The research demonstrates that access to pornographic material is facilitated in the digital environment, finding that large platforms with pornographic material have high levels of access.

The publication presents the results of the "Information Society Indicators" survey, which includes: a report on the use of ICT in enterprises, a report on the use of ICT in financial sector enterprises, the use of ICT in public administration units, the use of ICT in households (including an individual questionnaire) and basic characteristics of the ICT sector.
(Source: Report)

The JIM (Youth, Information, Media) study series is organised by the Media Education Research Association Southwest (mpfs), a cooperation of the State Institute for Communications in Baden-Württemberg (LFK) and the Media Authority Rhineland-Palatinate,  annually since 1998 in cooperation with Südwestrundfunk (SWR). The report investigates the repertoire of media available to young people, including their access to and use of computers/laptops, televisions, smartphones, game consoles and streaming services.

The KIM study (Children, Internet, Media) has been carried out in Germany since 1999 to understand how children use media.  The 2022 edition found that children often use digital media alone and without supervision – especially digital games and the Internet. Two thirds of parents also did not use any technical options for youth media protection such as filters or security settings.

According to the report, in 2023, 25.9% of people aged 16 to 74 have digital skills at basic level and 30.0% above basic, giving a proportion of 56.0% for all those with skills at basic level or above, 0.7 percentage points (pp) more than in 2021.

In the same year, 85.8% of the resident population aged 16-74 used the internet in the 3 months prior to the interview (1.3 pp more than in the previous year). Virtually all young people aged 16-24 and all students use the internet, and the usage rate is over 98% for those (16-74) who have completed upper secondary or tertiary education.