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Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon
This study fills demand for data on access and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Brazilian legal Amazon, a region of localities with identical economic, political, and social problems. We use the 2010 Brazilian Demographic Census to compile data on urban and rural househ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27035577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152655 |
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author | de Brito, Silvana Rossy da Silva, Aleksandra do Socorro Cruz, Adejard Gaia Monteiro, Maurílio de Abreu Vijaykumar, Nandamudi Lankalapalli da Silva, Marcelino Silva Costa, João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Francês, Carlos Renato Lisboa |
author_facet | de Brito, Silvana Rossy da Silva, Aleksandra do Socorro Cruz, Adejard Gaia Monteiro, Maurílio de Abreu Vijaykumar, Nandamudi Lankalapalli da Silva, Marcelino Silva Costa, João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Francês, Carlos Renato Lisboa |
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description | This study fills demand for data on access and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Brazilian legal Amazon, a region of localities with identical economic, political, and social problems. We use the 2010 Brazilian Demographic Census to compile data on urban and rural households (i) with computers and Internet access, (ii) with mobile phones, and (iii) with fixed phones. To compare the concentration of access to ICT in the municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon with other regions of Brazil, we use a concentration index to quantify the concentration of households in the following classes: with computers and Internet access, with mobile phones, with fixed phones, and no access. These data are analyzed along with municipal indicators on income, education, electricity, and population size. The results show that for urban households, the average concentration in the municipalities of the Amazon for computers and Internet access and for fixed phones is lower than in other regions of the country; meanwhile, that for no access and mobile phones is higher than in any other region. For rural households, the average concentration in the municipalities of the Amazon for computers and Internet access, mobile phones, and fixed phones is lower than in any other region of the country; meanwhile, that for no access is higher than in any other region. In addition, the study shows that education and income are determinants of inequality in accessing ICT in Brazilian municipalities and that the existence of electricity in rural households is directly associated with the ownership of ICT resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-48180812016-04-19 Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon de Brito, Silvana Rossy da Silva, Aleksandra do Socorro Cruz, Adejard Gaia Monteiro, Maurílio de Abreu Vijaykumar, Nandamudi Lankalapalli da Silva, Marcelino Silva Costa, João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Francês, Carlos Renato Lisboa PLoS One Research Article This study fills demand for data on access and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Brazilian legal Amazon, a region of localities with identical economic, political, and social problems. We use the 2010 Brazilian Demographic Census to compile data on urban and rural households (i) with computers and Internet access, (ii) with mobile phones, and (iii) with fixed phones. To compare the concentration of access to ICT in the municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon with other regions of Brazil, we use a concentration index to quantify the concentration of households in the following classes: with computers and Internet access, with mobile phones, with fixed phones, and no access. These data are analyzed along with municipal indicators on income, education, electricity, and population size. The results show that for urban households, the average concentration in the municipalities of the Amazon for computers and Internet access and for fixed phones is lower than in other regions of the country; meanwhile, that for no access and mobile phones is higher than in any other region. For rural households, the average concentration in the municipalities of the Amazon for computers and Internet access, mobile phones, and fixed phones is lower than in any other region of the country; meanwhile, that for no access is higher than in any other region. In addition, the study shows that education and income are determinants of inequality in accessing ICT in Brazilian municipalities and that the existence of electricity in rural households is directly associated with the ownership of ICT resources. Public Library of Science 2016-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4818081/ /pubmed/27035577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152655 Text en © 2016 Brito et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article de Brito, Silvana Rossy da Silva, Aleksandra do Socorro Cruz, Adejard Gaia Monteiro, Maurílio de Abreu Vijaykumar, Nandamudi Lankalapalli da Silva, Marcelino Silva Costa, João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque Francês, Carlos Renato Lisboa Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
title | Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
title_full | Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
title_fullStr | Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
title_full_unstemmed | Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
title_short | Concentration of Access to Information and Communication Technologies in the Municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon |
title_sort | concentration of access to information and communication technologies in the municipalities of the brazilian legal amazon |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27035577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152655 |
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