This survey conducted by the SNCD with Predictys asked French Internet users about the main uses of their main e-mail address in 2018. It appears that more than 80 percent of respondents answered that they used their main address to manage their personal correspondence, while about 30 percent of them used it for their professional correspondence.
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What is your main e-mail address for?*
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Manage my personal correspondence
85%
Manage my purchases
45%
Manage my online services (bank, invoices, employment ...)
39%
Manage my professional correspondence
28%
Receive commercial offers
17%
Manage my social networks
16%
Participate in contests
13%
Other
1%
Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Share of respondents85%85%45%45%39%39%28%28%17%17%16%16%13%13%1%1%Manage my personalcorrespondenceManage my purchasesManage my onlineservices (bank,invoices, employment...)Manage myprofessionalcorrespondenceReceive commercialoffersManage my socialnetworksParticipate in contestsOther
0%20%40%60%80%100%
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SNCD. (September 11, 2018). What is your main e-mail address for?* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 16, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1007326/main-uses-email-address-france/
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