Proportion of youth and adults who have connected and installed new devices, female (%)
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The proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill as defined as the percentage of individuals that have undertaken certain ICT-related activities in the last 3 months. The lack of ICT skills continues to be one of the key barriers keeping people from fully benefitting from the potential of ICT. These data may be used to inform targeted policies to improve ICT skills, and thus contribute to an inclusive information society. The data compiler for this indicator is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Eurostat collects data annually for 32 European countries, while the ITU is responsible for setting up the standards and collecting this information from the remaining countries. The figure 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 spent using ICT skills inside and outside of school and/or workplace, availability of internet access inside or outside of school and/or …