Almost half of adults in the UK purchased goods online during the last three months of 2009 according to survey data released by The British Population Survey.

This compares to 45.4% for the same period in 2008. Searching online for medicine without prescriptions information on products or services people are thinking of purchasing has also risen to a new total of 54.5%. These rises during 2009 come on the back of a further increase in the overall percentage of the population who have access to the Internet. Nearly three out of every four adults now has access to the Internet.

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