The EBRD Life in Transition survey changed their wording on this question quite a bit this wave, so it is difficult to compare to the past. But here I present the frequency of Azerbaijanis using various media as an information source. The question says: “People use different sources to learn what is going on in…
The EBRD Life in Transition survey changed their wording on this question quite a bit this wave, so it is difficult to compare to the past. But here I present the frequency of Armenians using various media as an information source. The question says: “People use different sources to learn what is going on in…
The EBRD Life in Transition survey changed their wording on this question quite a bit this wave, so it is difficult to compare to the past. But here I present the frequency of Eurasians using the Internet and social media as an information source. The question says: “People use different sources to learn what is…
A few years ago I made a graphic blog post about household Internet in Europe and Eurasia. It is time for an update with the 2015 EBRD Life in Transition dataset. They’ve changed the wording to ask people if they have any household Internet access, including from a smartphone. They also asked why they do…
A few years ago I made some graphics and a blog post showing personal computer ownership in Europe and Eurasia based on the EBRD’s Life in Transition survey. Last week I presented these data to some graduate students and that reminded me that I should update this! There are 2015-2016 data available and the picture…
I’ve written some blog posts in the past where I explain how I use Facebook ads to estimate how many Facebook users there are in a particular country. Here’s a September 2017 update for Armenia! As of September 2017, there are about 1,100,000 Facebook users in Armenia, according to Facebook. That is 37% of the…
It has been quite awhile since I last blogged about Facebook use in the Caucasus. Again, here is a guide to how I get these data. According to Facebook, as of September 2017, around 2,600,000 Azerbaijanis, 27% of the total population, or more accurately, 26% of the population over age 14, are on Facebook. A…
I wrote a blog post on Medium about my experience protesting the immigration ban at my local airport yesterday. Here it is.
It has been quite awhile since I last blogged about Facebook use in the Caucasus. Two interesting changes have happened: one, Facebook now also gives Instagram data and two, Facebook now reports on number of users in an average day. Thus numbers may seem lower. Again, here is a guide to how I get these…
A colleague asked about research on gender-based violence in Azerbaijan and I started to answer her e-mail with some results from the 2011 CRRC Social capital, media, and gender survey, but quickly realized I might as well write a blog post on this! I did an analysis on some of the gender items a number…