Latest Survey Results by MOE (pdf in Japanese) as of March 2000

Supplementary Table A Computer and the Internet Diffusion Rates      (MOE, March 1999)

Types of School

No. of School

(A)

No. of Schools Computers Equipped (B)

Ratio (B/A)

(%)

No. of Computers (C)

Ratio (C/B)

(%)

No. of Schools equipped with the Internet (D)

Ratio (D/B)

(%)

Primary

23,811

23,686

22,634

23,140

95.1

97.7

236,408

297,845

10.4

12.9

3,230

6,499

13.6

27.4

Lower Secondary

10,475

10,432

10,455

10,426

99.8

99.9

293,302

334,213

28.1

32.1

2,375

4,461

22.7

42.8

Upper Secretary

4,162

4,161

4,162

4,161

100.0

100.0

295,928

317,886

71.1

76.4

1,557

2,651

37.4

63.7

Special/Handicapped

918

920

905

910

98.6

98.9

10,351

12,163

11.4

13.4

 201

 334

21.9

36.3

Total

39,366

39,199

38,156

38,637

96.9

98.6

835,989

962,107

21.9

24.9

7,363

13,945

18.7

35.6

(Upper numbers are data taken as of 1998, Lower as of 1999)  


           Supplementary Table B Transition of Computer Diffusion Rates                          (MOE, March 1999)

Type

of

school

Percentage(%)

 

 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996  1997 1998  1999

Primary

 21.0  30.9 41.0  50.2 57.7  66.1 77.7  84.7  90.7  95.1 97.7

Lower Secondary

 44.8  58.9 74.7  86.1 94.7  98.4 99.4  99.7  99.8  99.8  99.9

Upper Secondary

 96.3  97.8 98.9  99.4 99.7  99.9 100   100  100  100   100

Special/Handicapped

 62.9  71.0 77.7  82.1 86.8  92.5 97.2  98.3  98.7  98.6  98.9

Supplementary Table C Rooms Computers equipped      (as of 1999)  (MOE, March 1999)

Types of School

No. of Schools Computers Equiped (A)

Computer Labo

AV room, Art , Science Labo, etc.

Normal Classroom

Library

Teachersf Room

Multipurpose Room, etc.

LAN

(to A)

Primary

23,140

62.2 (15.1)

11.0 (4.2)

11.1 (4.0)

16.0 (3.0)

72.9 (1.7)

27.6 (2.8)

27.7

Lower Secondary

10,426

99.4 (27.1)

20.4 (5.0)

6.2 (4.4)

11.9 (2.2)

81.3 (2.6)

36.3 (3.7)

64.6

Upper Secretary

4,161

92.9 (54.7)

54.2 (24.7)

1.4 (12.1)

45.0 (1.7)

94.1 (7.2)

64.6 (6.4)

65.3

Special/Handicapped

910

69.0 (8.7)

31.0 (4.6)

24.1 (5.5)

16.8 (2.3)

60.0 (2.8)

58.6 (4.1)

26.0

Total

38,637

75.7 (24.4)

18.7 (10.9)

9.0 (4.3)

18.0 (2.5)

60.0 (2.8)

34.7 (3.8)

41.7

                            Numbers indicate the percentages and those in ( ) are number of computer