Brunei Muara District Tops In PC But Belait Leads In Internet
By Azlan Othman

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Brunei Muara district topped the ownership of personal computers while the Belait district had the most people who were connected to the Internet, the 2001 population and housing census revealed.

The census, which was highlighted in the latest issue of the Brunei Economic Bulletin, included questions on the ownership of personal computers by private households. The results showed that out of 53,928 private households, 46.6 per cent owned at least one PC.

This meant that nearly every other private household in Brunei owned a PC. This aggregate data however, masks a considerable difference in the ownership of PCs by census district.

The proportion of PC ownership was highest in the Brunei/Muara district, with slightly over half (50.8 per cent) of the total private households owning a PC, while the lowest was in Temburong (25.5 per cent). Almost half (47.5 per cent) of the total private households owned a PC in Belait, 38.4 Per cent in Tutong and 34.4 per cent in Bandar Seri Begawan.

With regard to the Internet access, some 61.9 per cent of the private households in Brunei were connected to the Internet. The proportion was slightly higher than the national average in two of the census districts with Belait at 68.5 per cent and Bandar Seri Begawan at 65.5 per cent.

The Brunei Muara district recorded 61.4 per cent being connected to the Internet, while in Tutong slightly more than half (51.9 per cent) of the private households had access to the Internet. In Temburong only 40.9 per cent were connected. (Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin)

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