This is an update to this post from January and this post from March. 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…
More on methodology here. The WVS media use questions are essentially useless (sorry WVS!) for my research. They ask about frequency of use as an information source and then use of a personal computer. However, since sometimes some people question my analyses about technology use in the Caucasus, these can provide a datapoint from an…
Link to full 2013 2012 2011 And here’s some graphics for the devices.
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…
(This is a continuation of a post I made in 2010 about this issue. This analysis based on the 2013 Alternative Resources in Media dataset.) So, the social networking site that one spends time on isn’t arbitrary. Research tells us that generally people go where their friends are, but also that there are demographic differences…
More from the new Alternative Media USAID-CRRC dataset. Most Armenians are getting online (primarily) from home. (I wish that it had had some sort of ranking or estimate of hours, but it is what it is.) And how do people get online at home? Cable, 3G flash card, and still dial up (I can do…
Here’s an update to this 2012 post. Green is of Internet users and blue is for all Armenian adult citizens. In the near future I’ll do a break down of these activities by region, sex, etc. In this recent publication of mine, we show that rural, less educated, and poorer Armenians weren’t engaging in capital-enhancing…
Last year I wrote a blog post about triangulating different data sources. I used the example of mobile phone ownership and the ITU, Caucasus Barometer, and Gallup. In that post I said: “The point I’d like to make is that these statistics are complicated and it is hard to get at the “right” number. That’s…