More than 9 million UK adults have never used the Internet, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
This compares with just over 38 million UK adults who were Internet users, and of those, just over 30 million accessed the Internet every day or almost every day.
People who were more likely to have never used the Internet were the over 65s, the widowed, those on low incomes and those with no formal qualifications.
The Internet Access survey of households and individuals, which measures home access to the Internet and individuals’ use of the Internet across the UK showed that in 2010:
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