UK parents on age limitations provided by mobile carriers by gender 2022

According to a 2022 survey of parents in the United Kingdom, 55 percent of parents with male children reported being aware that some major mobile phone networks offer an age verification process for users to access adult content. In comparison, 57 percent of parents with female children reported the same. Overall, awareness of this safety and parental control feature was present in over half of the interviewed parents.

Parents in the United Kingdom (UK) who were aware of the possibility to ask their mobile phone networks to block access to adult content as of November 2022, by gender

Characteristic	Yes	No	Don't know
Male	55%	41%	4%
Female	57%	38%	6%

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Release date

April 2021

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

October 3, 2022 to November 30, 2022

Age group

3-17 years

Special properties

parents whose child uses a smartphone or tablet computer

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question: "Some major mobile phone networks in the UK offer a block on Adult or 18+ content, which requires users to go through an age verification process before this content can be unblocked and received on the user’s phone. Did you know about this block on Adult content before today?"

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