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Digital Divide in Greece - A Quantitative Examination of Internet Nonuse

In: Economy, Finance and Business in Southeastern and Central Europe

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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)

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.

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  • Elias Gounopoulos & George Kokkonis & Stavros Valsamidis & Sotirios Kontogiannis, 2018. "Digital Divide in Greece - A Quantitative Examination of Internet Nonuse," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Anastasios Karasavvoglou & Srećko Goić & Persefoni Polychronidou & Pavlos Delias (ed.), Economy, Finance and Business in Southeastern and Central Europe, pages 889-903, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-319-70377-0_61
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70377-0_61
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    1. Charalambos Tsekeris & Nicolas Demertzis & Apostolos Linardis & Katerina Iliou & Dimitra Kondyli & Amalia Frangiskou & Olga Papaliou, 2020. "Investigating the Internet in Greece: findings from the World Internet Project," GreeSE – Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe 153, Hellenic Observatory, LSE.

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