Digital Divide in Greece - A Quantitative Examination of Internet Nonuse

Elias Gounopoulos (), George Kokkonis (), Stavros Valsamidis () and Sotirios Kontogiannis ()
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Elias Gounopoulos: Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia
George Kokkonis: Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia
Stavros Valsamidis: Technological Education Institute of East Macedonia
Sotirios Kontogiannis: University of Ioannina

A chapter in Economy, Finance and Business in Southeastern and Central Europe, 2018, pp 889-903 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract During the last decade, the Internet take-up rate in Greece among individuals is much lower compared with the EU average. This paper investigates issues of the digital divide in Greece, by analyzing micro-data from the Eurostat ICT survey on household and individuals in 2012. It aims to quantify and explain the influence of socio-economic and demographic factors (employment status, gender, age, household income, geographic location, country of citizenship, family status, and educational attainment), in the decision to have Internet access at home and use the Internet. This paper shows that educational attainment, age, income, employment status, family status, country of citizenship and type of locality are the most important factors determining Internet access and Internet use. The most important reason for not having Internet access at home is the lack of skills, while lower educated people face many different barriers to engage with the Internet. Greek non-users are a large and socio-economically disadvantaged heterogeneous group. In order to adopt effective policy interventions, there should be more focused research to understand which subgroups of people, and for which reasons do not access and use the Internet.

Keywords: Digital divide; Digital exclusion; Internet non-use; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70377-0_61

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