It could be argued that COVID has done more to pull us into the 'online' age than previous decades of encouragement - the charts below tell a story.

As reflected in the top two charts, Zooming and Skypeing, as well as online shopping, seem to have replaced so much of the face-to-face meeting that makes the 'normal' world go around.  

The  other 3 charts show levels of online confidence (low=1, 5=High) before COVID, then after COVID, and finally how positive people feel about 'doing things online' becoming more prevalent in the future. 

The data received online by 14 October 2020 had clearly come from a  predominantly older and digitally confident group of people, perhaps atypical of the age groups they came from. So, the PDF questionnaire below was delivered to NM households on 13/14 October 2020, aimed at local people wary of responding online. 

As the paper returns come in it will be interesting to see how the live data in the charts here changes ... perhaps it won't!