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 Proportion of persons aged between 16 and 74 years old obtaining skills on computer or Internet usage (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of persons aged between 16 and 74 years old obtaining skills on computer or Internet usage (%) by Mode of acquisition of skills (activities at computer/ Internet); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Survey on ICT usage in private households
First available period 2005
Last available period 2011
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Mode of acquisition of skills (activities at computer/ Internet)
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
  • PERSONAL COMPUTER:  Personal use system with own processing and communication capabilities: Desktop and Tower' geared to run general use applications; Workstations' geared to process applications with significant processing and graphical demands; Laptops' geared to run general use applications, characterised by its reduced dimensions and weight, with an autonomous electrical feed; Terminals 'input/output units without own processing capabilities, via which a user communicates with the computer.
  • INTERNET (www access):  The connection to the set of global computer networks interlinked by the TCP/IP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), where data and service servers are located (FTP, WWW, email, etc.).
Formule (Persons aged between 16 and 74 years old obtaining skills on computer or Internet usage/ Resident population aged between 16 and 74 years old)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 04/11/2011


information presented in 20/5/2024