I’m working on a project right now that looks at trust, so I wanted to share some results from the 2013 Caucasus Barometer. Here’s some work on trust from 2012. And more from the EBRD Life in Transitions study. First, the generalized trust question – there is scholarly debate about how people interpret this question,…
Number of Facebook users in the Caucasus is a popular topic. I did this analysis with data from Facebook itself. From the 2013 Caucasus Barometer, we see that 20% of Armenian adults, 16% of Azerbaijani adults, and 26% of Georgian adults use Facebook at least once a week. (Also provided are the percentages out of…
The new Caucasus Barometer is out and I did some analysis on voting behaviors. (Here’s 2011 and Here’s 2012.) These voting rates seem to match up with the official reported rates. Wow – this is all over the place. Georgia isn’t a surprise, Armenia is interesting, and Azerbaijan is depressing. Interesting with regard to the…
Okay okay okay… a sneak preview. Previous posts on Azerbaijan and gender online for context… * Gender online, Azerbaijan, 2012, Caucasus Barometer * Regional and gender Internet activities, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, 2012, Caucasus Barometer * Internet infographic, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, 2012, Caucasus Barometer * Social networking sites, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, 2012, Caucasus Barometer * All…
My favorite day of the year is here! No, not Fat Tuesday – but new Caucasus Barometer data day! I’ll be posting a variety of analyses over the coming weeks, but here’s the one everyone loves – percent of adult Internet users in each country. First, let us all acknowledge that I hate talking about…
This is an update to this post from January. It is hard to know how many people in a country are using Facebook, but through Facebook’s Ad selling program, you can get some rounded information. The numbers they give are not exact, so these percentages displayed below are not accurate for the true number of…
The Internet is a strange thing. In the early life of the Internet there was a lot of rhetoric about how bad the Internet would be for all sorts of things – relationships, social life, civic engagement, etc. Now we know that 1) the Internet is here to stay and 2) the effects of the…
While figuring out technology penetration rates isn’t my main interest, people do ask me a lot. I get nervous about giving percentages because I am more interested in demographic divides – gender, wealth, education, region, etc. And for the most part, giving penetrations rates doesn’t allow for that. (See here for more on this.) But…
Since it seems like people enjoyed my last post about poverty, I thought I’d do a quick additional analysis. (By the way, ALL posts related to poverty are tagged for your easy browsing). And why do I, a scholar of technology do all this analysis of poverty? Because my research is actually about technology and…
More poverty updates…