While I’ve done infographics on the Internet situation in Azerbaijan before (and with a gender layer here), this is slightly newer data and there are a ton of interesting new questions that I’ll try to address in the coming weeks.
More infographics! This time on attitudes toward parliamentary elections (and parliament itself) in Armenia.
As usual, please let me know if you have any questions. I know that there were no gender differences in any of these reported
Surveying Armenians and Azerbaijanis about their opinions on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is very difficult. In both countries, demonstrating a pro-national stance is important. In Azerbaijan especially, despite great efforts, there is a perception that poll takers are connected to the government.
Furthermore, the “rhetorical war” – as described by Tom de Waal – influences public opinion on these matters.
With these caveats in mind, please read this infographic with the perspective of the publicness of public opinion on this topic.
And as always, please let me know if you have any questions. I’m happy to do further analysis on age, gender, etc.
Images from my #ictd2012 poster, plus some updates on April 1.
Some fun bits:
– 37% of Armenians have used the Internet — that’s some major growth, as you can see on slide 2.
– And Armenians are using the Internet more often. 22% of Armenians are online daily and 8% are online weekly. Big increases from the past few years.
– Those that are NOT online are more likely to be rural, poorer, less educated, and older — but when they were asked, most said that they didn’t get online because they don’t have a computer, followed by a lack of interest or need.
– From the original post I have the PC, mobile, and home Internet connection data from the Caucasus Barometer, the ITU, and Gallup. Based on methodology, I give the most weight to the Caucasus Barometer, but I figured that it’d be interesting to see how the three measure up.
In the next few days I’ll post online activities and some demographic breakdowns. As always, if you have questions, I’m happy to do some analysis for you. And, please link back to this post and/or give the proper attribution if you use these stats. This is the result of many hours of analysis and I appreciate your respect for my intellectual labor and property.
Armenia ICT Adoption by Katy Pearce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.katypearce.net.
I’m at the #ictd2012 conference right now and I’ve been asked about Armenian Internet use. Business Internet use is actually quite low, especially compared to household use. This surprises a lot of people.
So I did a quick analysis to find out where Armenians get online most often. (This is rough 2011 Caucasus Barometer — will revise if different in the final version.) And this is of ALL Armenians.
19% of all Armenians get online at home.
3% on a friend’s computer.
2% at work.
2% via the mobile.
1% at an Internet cafe.
More from the ArMedia dataset…
With so many Armenians on social networking sites (85% of mobile Internet users, 83% of Armenians that have both mobile and PC-based Internet, and 54% of PC-based Internet users in Armenia, as of a year ago), what are they doing on there?
Mostly communicating with friends! While only a little bit more than a third (37%) of Armenians that access social networking sites via a computer say that they communicate with friends, three-quarters of mobile Internet SNS users and 83% of those with both mobile and PC Internet and use SNSs say they’re communicating with pals.
Some use messaging to communicate with friends (27% of PC SNS users, 23% of mobile SNS users, and 19% that have both mobile and PC for SNS access).
Those PC SNS users are busy with something else — they’re sharing information (well, 37% of them are), but compared to only 13% of those with both and 17% of those with mobile for SNS access, this is a lot!
Those PC users are givers, not takers — they are busy sharing information, but they’re not really seeking information. Only 8% of PC SNS users are seeking information on social networking sites, while a quarter of mobile users and those with both PC and mobile for SNS access do.
What about new people? In my qualitative work I’ve heard a lot about Armenians trying to meet dating partners on social networking sites – and maybe this is the case in this data as well. A quarter to a third of Armenian SNS users are trying to meet new people on social networking sites.
Games are a bit popular too, especially with mobile users — a third of those with both PC and mobile and a quarter of mobile-only SNS users play games. Only 18% of PC SNS users do though.
Photos, videos, and music are posted by 17-27% of SNS users too.
** If anyone is interested, I can do a Facebook versus Odnoklassniki breakdown. **
New data is coming soon (hoorah!), but this gives a pretty good snapshot of Armenian social network site use in January-February 2011.
Based on data from the Armenian Media landscape report, here are the regional breakdowns of means of accessing the Internet in Armenia (in early 2011).
You can see that for the country as a whole, most Internet users are personal computer based – although mobile is not insignificant. In the capital, PC dominates, but for rural users, mobile is catching up to PC. And those mobile users are often NEW users.
In an upcoming study we discuss how much the way people access the Internet influences what they actually do once they’re online as well as the demographic differences between those that use a PC and those that use a mobile phone as their primary Internet access device.
This is the entire country.
This is Yerevan.
This is regional cities.
This is rural areas.
(All images by Janine Slaker)
| OF ALL ARMENIAN INTERNET USERS |
Total |
Yerevan |
Regional city |
Rural |
| N = 420 |
N = 215 |
N = 145 |
N = 60 |
|
| Mobile Internet access |
15% |
10% |
19% |
28% |
| PC-based Internet access |
71% |
73% |
77% |
62% |
|
Both mobile and |
11% |
17% |
4% |
10% |
| OF ALL ARMENIANS |
Total |
Yerevan |
Regional city |
Rural |
| N = 1420 |
N = 504 |
N = 443 |
N = 473 |
|
| No Internet access | 70% |
57% |
67% |
87% |
| Mobile Internet access |
5% |
4% |
6% |
4% |
| PC-based Internet access |
22% |
31% |
25% |
8% |
|
Both mobile and |
3% |
7% |
1% |
1% |
I’m working on a project right now looking at the relationship between English language proficiency and Internet use in the Caucasus.
Although wandering around Yerevan, Baku, or Tbilisi might tell you something different, English language proficiency in these countries is actually quite low.
Between 1-4% of the population considers themselves “advanced” in the English language and two-thirds to three-quarters have no proficiency whatsoever.
And despite conventional wisdom, it looks like there hasn’t been much growth in English proficiency since Caucasus Barometer started measuring it in 2007. And in Azerbaijan it seems to have gone down a little bit (out migration?).
What are the demographic characteristics that predict English language proficiency?
First, one’s education level (standardized beta .30) is the stronger predictor of English language proficiency.
Next is one’s urbanness. The more urban you are (capital, regional city, rural area), the more likely you are to know English (standardized beta .15).
Then one’s material deprivation (which means wealth/poverty). The wealthier you are, the more likely you are to know English (standardized beta .13).
Finally, gender matters. Women are more likely to know English (there is a lot of research on this and isn’t surprising) (standardized beta .07).
Age didn’t matter at all.