- Name
- Proportion of youth/adults with information and communication technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill
- Indicator purpose
- ICT skills determine the effective use of information and communication technology. The lack of such skills continues to be one of the key barriers keeping people, and in particular women, from fully benefitting from the potential of information and communication technologies.
- Abstract
- Percentage of youth (aged 15-24 years) and adults (aged 15 years and above) that have undertaken certain computer-related activities in a given time period (e.g. last three months).
- Contact organization / person
- Ministry of Education
- Unit of measure
- Percentage (%)
- Other characteristics
- This indicator makes the link between ICT usage and impact and helps measure and track the level of proficiency of users. A high value indicates that a large share of the reference population has the ICT skill being measured.
- Classification used
- Computer-related activities to measure ICT skills include:
Copying or moving a file or folder;
Using copy and paste tools to duplicate or move information within a document;
Sending e-mails with attached files (e.g. document, picture, and video);
Using basic arithmetic formulae in a spreadsheet;
Connecting and installing new devices (e.g. modem, camera, printer);
Finding, downloading, installing and configuring software;
Creating electronic presentations with presentation software (including text, images, sound, video or charts);
Transferring files between a computer and other devices;
Writing a computer program using a specialised programming language.
A computer refers to a desktop computer, a laptop (portable) computer or a tablet (or similar handheld computer). It does not include equipment with some embedded computing abilities, such as smart TV sets or cell phones.
- Disaggregation
- is by age or age-group, sex, location.
- Key statistical concepts
- The indicator is calculated as the percentage of people in a given population who have responded ‘yes’ to a selected number of variables e.g. the use of ICT skills in various subject areas or learning domains, the use of ICT skills inside or outside of school and/or workplace, the minimum amount of time spend using ICT skills inside and outside of school and/or workplace, availability of internet access inside or outside of school and/or workplace, etc.
PICTa = ICTa
Pa
where:
PICTa,s = percentage of people in age group a who have ICT skill s
ICTa,s = number of people in age group a who have ICT skill s
Pa = population in age group a
- Recommended uses
- To substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown above was written by the Ministry of Education.
