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GENERATION Z

GREEK CADETS

AND THE INTERNET By: Manos Charitos

The Naftika Chronika team conducts an annual After excluding uncompleted or invalid
survey of first-year students at the Merchant questionnaires, the sample comprised 873
Marine Academies of Greece to explore, among responses, representing 65% of the 1,352 first-
other things, their vision for their studies and year Merchant Marine Academies students.
the factors that have determined their choice
to follow the maritime profession. THE AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT ON THE
In the following pages, we present the second INTERNET BY ASPIRING SEAFARERS
part of the 2022 survey focusing specifically on First-year students who took part in the survey
the relationship of first-year maritime students answered that they use the Internet quite a lot
with the Internet. in their daily lives, which is not very surprising, as
technology and the Internet are essentially syn-
SURVEY METHODOLOGY onymous with Generation Z, to which the survey
For the survey, we created a 21-question ques- participants belong.
tionnaire that was distributed to first-year
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students of the Merchant Marine Academies Figure 1: Distribution of the first-year students who participated in
electronically during the period December the survey based on the time they spend on the Ιnternet
2021-February 2022, when the students were
in the first semester of their studies , to be com- 35%
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pleted anonymously. 34% Total
To analyse the data, we used the statistical soft- 31%
ware STATA v.15.0. 29% Male
29% 28%
DATA ANALYSIS Female
The initial sample consisted of 998 responses 24%
from first-year students from the country’s
11 Merchant Marine Academies and War- 21% 20%
sash Maritime Academy students study-
ing at the Metropolitan College in Piraeus.

1. Before distributing the questionnaire, there had been 11% 12%
correspondence with the Directorate of Maritime Education at
the Ministry of Shipping and Insular Policy, which approved its 8%
distribution to the Naval Academies. 7%
2. The specific period was considered appropriate as the 5%
first-year students would have attended a sufficient number of 4% 1%
courses and talked with representatives of shipping companies, 0% 0%
student organisations, and their colleagues to answer the
questionnaire. >20h/week 10-20h/week 7-9h/week 5-6h/week 2-4h/week <1h/week

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