26 Jul

Tajikistan Internet

(These are excerpts from a forthcoming research paper, but given the events in Tajikistan I thought I’d post the descriptives.)

Tajikistan internet use, as of mid-2011:

Aware of Internet

44%

Of total, Adopted Internet

24%

Of total, Use Internet                                                      Never

90%

Less than monthly

2%

Monthly

3%

Daily

5%

So what do those daily users do online?

Internet Activities of Daily Users

Country

Email

News

Read blog

Comment blog

Videos

Music

Social networking sites

Tajikistan

86

76

45

43

43

53

76

That’s a lot of blogging/commenting! Now, granted, that’s like 2% of the total population… but still impressive.

 Tool Awareness and Use

Country

YouTube

Twitter

Facebook

Odnoklassniki

vKontake

Skype

Blog

Awareness/Use

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

Tajikistan

46

30

33

13

58

14

76

65

60

46

55

39

48

23

Granted, this was over a year ago, but even then, only half of DAILY Internet users knowing what YouTube is is sort of surprising. However, Odnoklassniki and vKontake are quite popular.

 

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08 Jul

Central Asian Women

While CRRC is known for its Caucasus Barometer, in Winter 2011, a Central Asian survey was conducted to look at access to justice in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. (Here are the data files and methodological notes.)

These analyses are only on the issues related to women in Central Asia. There is a lot more in this dataset.