Mexico. The Federal Institute of Telecommunications, IFT, made available to the public version 3.0 of the Calculator of probabilities of use of ICT and Internet activities in Mexico, an interactive tool that shows the probability that a person uses some Information or Communication Technology or performs certain activities on the Internet, based on their age, sex, educational level, occupation, income level and place of residence.
Among the most relevant changes of this version are the inclusion of training or education activities, the consumption of free audiovisual content and online sales. In addition, the age groups are modified to have a better picture of the information of children and the elderly.
The tool was developed based on the results of the study "Use of ICT and Internet activities in Mexico": Impact of the sociodemographic characteristics of users, which was carried out in 2019 by the IFT and was made based on information from the National Survey on Availability and Use of Information Technologies in Households (ENDUTIH) 2018, published in 2019, which is representative at the national level, by state, with disaggregation by rural and urban area, and has information for 49 selected cities.
The ICTs whose probability of use is analyzed in Calculator 3.0 are the conventional mobile phone, smart mobile phone and the internet; whereas, the activities on the Internet that are included are: use of social networks, consumption of paid and free audiovisual content, purchases, sales, banking operations and use of the internet for training or education.
The tool also shows information on the distribution of the population by sociodemographic characteristic at the national level, by state, with the possibility of disaggregating this information by city, rural-urban area or by sex. It also contains information on telecommunications equipment and services per 100 households/inhabitants at the state level.
Calculator 3.0 works by following two simple steps:
- The user chooses the device, ICT or internet activity whose use he wants to know
- Select the sociodemographic characteristics of the profile you want to analyze.
