# Risk Perceptions on Social Media Use in Norway
## 4 Demographics and Sample Description
### Self-Assessment  
We asked the respondents to rate their IT skills on a scale from _1--Very poor_ to _4--Expert_. Figure 4 shows that only one person rates his IT skills as \"Very poor\". Furthermore, we can see that from both the questionnaire distributed on Reddit and Facebook/Twitter that around 15% of the respondents ranked their IT skill level at 2, this is in contrast to the questionnaire distributed on Slettmeg, where approximately 55% of people chose the same. For all three, around 40% chose that their IT skill was at a 3, and about the same amount of people placed their skill level at 4. From the Reddit and Facebook/Twitter questionnaire, zero people placed themselves at highly skilled in the Slettmeg distributed questionnaire. That Slettmeg has such different values here could come from who decides/needs to use their service. In Table 7, we can see how much people care about IT, information security and privacy: IT generally has a lower number of people caring about it. Information security and privacy are pretty similar in people's enthusiasm towards the subject. However, the respondents seem to care more about privacy. There were no differences between the natives and non-natives in the self-assessment; however, there were differences between both the sexes and having been hacked, illustrated in Table 8: Where the respondents who had been hacked had a significantly lower perception of their generic IT competence. We see similar results for the females in the sample regarding IT competence, information security and privacy. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l l l} \hline \hline  & **Count** & **Percentage** \\ \hline More seldom & 165 & 53\% \\ \hline
1–3 times a month & 69 & 22\% \\ \hline
0–5 times a week & 43 & 14\% \\ \hline
6–10 times a week & 18 & 6\% \\ \hline
11–15 times a week & 1 & 0\% \\ \hline
16–20 times a week & 3 & 1\% \\ \hline More often than 20 times & 12 & 4\% \\ \hline Total & 311 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: The table shows how often the respondents of the questionnaire post on social media. The total here is missing about 18 people, due to an unexpected error with the questionnaire. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l} \hline \hline
**Age** & **Facebook** & **Instagram** & **Twitter** & **Reddit** & **TikTok** & **Snapchat** & **Other** & **N** \\ \hline Younger than 21 & 12 & 66.7\% & 12 & 66.7\% & 11 & 61.1\% & 14 & 77.8\% & 6 & 33.3\% & 14 & 77.8\% & 3 & 16.7\% & 18 \\ \hline
21–30 & 156 & 87.2\% & 116 & 64.8\% & 73 & 40.8\% & 121 & 67.6\% & 18 & 10.1\% & 158 & 88.3\% & 22 & 12.3\% & 179 \\ \hline
31–40 & 59 & 89.4\% & 38 & 57.6\% & 25 & 37.9\% & 41 & 62.1\% & 3 & 4.5\% & 53 & 80.3\% & 7 & 10.6\% & 66 \\ \hline
41–50 & 33 & 91.7\% & 26 & 72.2\% & 16 & 44.4\% & 11 & 30.6\% & 3 & 8.3\% & 27 & 75.0\% & 8 & 22.2\% & 36 \\ \hline
51–60 & 20 & 90.9\% & 13 & 59.1\% & 8 & 36.4\% & 2 & 9.1\% & 2 & 9.1\% & 12 & 54.5\% & 2 & 9.1\% & 22 \\ \hline
61–70 & 6 & 100.0\% & 4 & 66.7\% & 1 & 16.7\% & 0 & 0.0\% & 0 & 0.0\% & 2 & 33.3\% & 1 & 16.7\% & 6 \\ \hline Older than 70 & 2 & 100.0\% & 0 & 0.0\% & 0 & 0.0\% & 0 & 0.0\% & 1 & 50.0\% & 0 & 0.0\% & 2 \\ \hline Total & 288 & & 209 & 134 & & 189 & & 32 & 267 & & 43 & 329 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 5: The table shows the number of people who use the different kinds of social media. The first number is the number of respondents in that age group and the percentage is the percentage of people in the age group that use a given social media platform.