DO THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MOBILE PHONE USERS PLAY A ROLE IN USAGE?

Abstract

Gender, age, work, education, history and cyber security knowledge are chosen as the demographic characteristics of the user; these are investigated in the scope of the operating system of the mobile phone and the behavior of the user to keep business data/document on his/her device. A convenience sampling of 153 volunteers has been conducted through a structured survey and Chi-Square tests are performed. Primary findings reveal that storing business data/document behavior shows uniform figures only in terms of the history of the participants. A weaker relationship exists between history and the O/S of the handset participant. Particularly, the cyber security knowledge and the education of the user shows no or insignificant relation to the behavior of keeping business data/documents. The longer the history the participant has with the mobile phone, the more distinguishing his/her behavior in holding business data/document on the handset and selecting handset can be.