TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward global measurement of the information society
T2 - A U.S.-China comparison of national government surveys
AU - Williams, Kate
AU - Yan, Hui
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - To be global, digital and inclusive, we need comparable measures of ICT use around the world. To contribute to this, this research note analyzes what questions the Chinese and the U.S. governments ask in their large, long-running surveys on the topic of computer and Internet use. The process and content of these surveys point up agreements, differences, and silences. Based on this, we propose nine basic questions that can be standardized and used in all country surveys of ICT use to create a coherent global dataset.
AB - To be global, digital and inclusive, we need comparable measures of ICT use around the world. To contribute to this, this research note analyzes what questions the Chinese and the U.S. governments ask in their large, long-running surveys on the topic of computer and Internet use. The process and content of these surveys point up agreements, differences, and silences. Based on this, we propose nine basic questions that can be standardized and used in all country surveys of ICT use to create a coherent global dataset.
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U2 - 10.5210/fm.v14i10.2576
DO - 10.5210/fm.v14i10.2576
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:71649086366
SN - 1396-0466
VL - 14
JO - First Monday
JF - First Monday
IS - 10
ER -