The number of EU households with Internet access rose from 49 percent in the first quarter of 2006, according to findings of a survey on the implementation of information and communication technology in the EU plus Croatia, Norway and Turkey.
The survey shows that the level of Internet access increased in all member states between 2006 and 2010, most notably in Romania where it increased threefold. It is followed by Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary and Slovakia where those statistics increased twice or almost twice.
In 2010, the highest number of households using the Internet were reported in the Netherlands (91%), Luxembourg (90%), Sweden (88 %), and Denmark (86%), while Bulgaria is at the bottom of the list with 33 percent of its households having access to the Internet. Romania reported 42 percent and Greece 46 percent.
Households with children were on the average more frequent users of the Internet that childless households.
For instance, in the EU the ratio was 84% to 65%, and in Croatia 80 percent of households with children had access to the Internet in comparison to 47 percent of households with no children.
In the Netherlands and Finland, 99 percent of households with children used the Internet, while in Romania only every second household with children had access to the Internet.