A Study of Female- and Older Adults-Led Households’ Telecommunication Expenditure in Digital Malaysia

Yvonne Lee (), Hazwan Mat Din, Chui Yin Wong, Wan Teng Lai and Ah Choo Koo
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Yvonne Lee: Multimedia University, Faculty of Management
Hazwan Mat Din: University Putra Malaysia, Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing (MyAgeingTM)
Chui Yin Wong: Intel Corporation, Internet of Things Experiences (IoTX), Internet of Things (IoT) Group
Wan Teng Lai: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Unit for Research on Women and Gender (KANITA), School of Social Sciences
Ah Choo Koo: Multimedia University, Faculty of Creative Multimedia

A chapter in Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology and Innovation Management (ICTIM 2022), 2022, pp 307-320 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The telecommunication expenditure patterns of Malaysian households in 2019 were analysed with microdata. Telecommunication expenditure resembles luxury goods spending behaviour. Households headed by older adults, female older adults, or those consisting entirely of older adults when compared to groups not possessing these characteristics, have lower percentage share of monthly telecommunication expenditure over household income. The authors propose that further policies should improve telecommunication equipment and services’ affordability to improve the older adults’ participation rate in the digital economy which will exist in Malaysia as an aged nation by 2044.

Keywords: Gender; telecommunication expenditure; ICT; older adults; ageing population; Malaysia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-080-0_27

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