In-home interviews were conducted in June and early July 2000 with over 600 youth aged six to 14, as well as their parents. The margin of error is +/- 4.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. In Canada, there are 1.2 million kids aged six to eight, and 2.5 million tweens aged nine to 14, according to Statistics Canada.The survey, which tracks the lifestyles, attitudes and opinions of kids and tweens each year, also says Internet usage is on the rise.

• In 1999, tweens spent an average of 2.4 hours a week surfing the net. In 2000, that increased to 3.8 hours a week.
  
• Forty-one per cent of tweens say they do other things while surfing the Net. Some split their attention between surfing and talking on the phone, eating or listening to music. Still others say they watch TV while working at their computer.
  
• While 75 per cent of tweens have a computer at home, one-fifth of the older ones, aged 13 and 14, have a PC in their own bedroom.
  
• The survey also found kids, aged six to eight, aren't far behind tweens in Net access. Of the two-thirds of them with computers at home, more than half of these kids have Internet access as well. However, this age-group is online for only one hour or less each week with evident parental guidance.
  
• Nine out of 10 parents "always and sometimes" surf the Net with their kids.
  
• Four out of 10 parents have installed an Internet safety device (ie. filtering or blocking software) on their home computer.