About 75.8% of Hong Kong households have personal computers, up 1.2% on last year, a Census & Statistics Department survey has found. Of them, 73.3% had their home PCs connected to the Internet, compared to 70.9% last year.

About 94.5% of households had a mobile telephone, up 1% on last year.

About 63.6% of establishments used personal computers, the highest being in the financing, insurance, real estate and business-services sector (82.4%), followed by the manufacturing, electricity and gas sector (69.2%), while the lowest percentage was in the transport, storage and communications sector (38.8%).

Email was the most common Internet function, used by 98.8% of establishments connected online, followed by "online sourcing of general information" (97.3%) and "online receipt of goods, services or information" (96.8%).