NEW ICT REPORT Youth 2017 12mei 2019 - cbs.aw

ICT and the youth of ArubaThe results of the 2017 ICT survey

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Preface

With the expanding and constant developments in today’s digital world, the CentralBureau of Statistics Aruba held a survey in the months of November - December 2017to gain more insight in the accessibility of modern Information andTelecommunications Technology (ICT) in Aruba and the use of ICT devices by thepopulation of Aruba. The data collected also serves to gain insight into which groupsdo not have access to ICT devices as well as to gather information on howknowledgeable the population of Aruba is in relation to ICT related programs.During a period of 4 weeks, surveyors visited households to collect data on the use ofICT. Based on a sample of 1200 households, interviews were held with all members ofthe household 5 years and older.In addition to questions on the use of ICT, respondents were asked about their ICTskills and knowledge, the presence of ICT equipment in the household, the access tointernet, the ownership and use of computers/laptops and mobile phones, and thefrequency and purpose of using ICT devices.This paper is an in-depth analysis of to the youth in Aruba aged 5 – 24 years and theirskills and use of ICT devices and programs.

Youth in

Aruba aged 5 – 24 years 3

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19.0%

37.2%

29.0%

69.5%

20.5%

0.7%

5.7%

1.2%

Computer

Laptop

Tablet

Mobile phone

Smart TV

E-book

MP3 player

Pos system

One of the main questions asked during the 2017 ICT survey was about the use ofdifferent ICT devices during the period of 3 months prior to the survey. The resultsare shown in the first graph below (graph 1), which indicates that the devices thatwere most predominantly used by young persons were mobile phones (69.5%),laptops (37.2%) and tablets (29.0%).Analyzing the results by sex, graph 2 shows just small differences between the twosexes. Young males show a slightly higher use of computers, laptops and Mp3devices, while young females had a higher use of all other devices.

22.9%

37.5%

27.6%

69.1%

18.3%

0

6.0%

0.3%

14.7%

36.9%

30.5%

69.9%

22.9%

1.4%

5.4%

2.2%

Computer

Laptop

Tablet

Mobile phone

Smart TV

E-book

MP3 player

Pos system

Female Male%

Use of ICT device by sex

Young persons using ICT devices

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Graph 1

Graph 2

ALMOST 70% OF

THE YOUTH

IN ARUBA USED A MOBILE PHONE

Comparing young males that had used a mobilephone to all young males that had participated inthe survey, 69.1% indicated that they had used amobile phone. The percentage of young femalesusing a mobile phone was 69.9%.

69.1%OF ALL YOUNG MALES WERE MOBILE PHONE USERS

69.9%OF ALL YOUNG FEMALES WERE MOBILE PHONE USERS

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Male Female

5-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

Age group

Used a mobile phone

Did not use a mobile phone

30.6%

69.2%

88.2%

90.6%

5-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

Used a mobile phone

Did not use a mobile phone

Age group

28.4%

68.5%

89.8%

92.2%

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As can be seen in bothgraphs, the percentages ofyoung males and femalesthat had used a mobilephone increased as the ageprogressed.Young males and femalesbetween 20 – 24 years ofage had the highestpercentage of mobile phoneusers in the three monthsprior to the survey. In this agegroup 90.6% of young malesand 92.2% of young femaleshad used a mobile phone.

School attending

24.2%

44.9%

35.7%

86.3%

81.1%

96.8%

100%

Pre-primary education, Kindergarten

Primary education

Special education

EPB (incl. special education)

MAVO

HAVO/VWO

HBO/WO

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Level of education attending

The results of the 2017 ICT survey indicated that the higher the level ofeducation students were attending, the higher the percentages using a mobilephone. As many as 96.8% of all HAVO/VWO- and 100% of HBO/WO studentshad used a mobile phone. Worth mentioning is that 24.2% of all kindergartenershad also used a mobile phone.

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The proportion of Youthin Aruba that had usedthe internet (84%)surpassed theproportion of theWorld’s Youth that wereusing the internet in2017, by 14 percentagepoints (70%) *.

*Source: ITU estimates for 2017, ITU report on youth and ICT

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85%83%

Young males

Young females

83% of young males and85% of young females had

used the internet 3 months prior to the survey.

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In general, theproportions of youngmales and femalesusing the internetaccording to their age-groups show verysmall differences. Bothyoung males andfemales in the agecategory 20 -24 yearshad the highestpercentages of internetuse. Of all youngfemales aged 5 - 9years, 64.2% had usedthe internet comparedto 59.7% of all youngmales.

Age group

Age group

59.7%

85.7%

94.1%

94.3%

40.3%

14.3%

5.9%

5.7%

5-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

Young males using the internet

Using internet Not using internet

64.2%

84.9%

93.2%

96.1%

35.8%

15.1%

6.8%

3.9%

5-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

Young females using the internet

Using internet Not using internet 11

Kindergarten Primary education

Special education

EPB MAVO HAVO/VWO HBO/WO

Illustrated in the graph is the distribution ofyouth that attended school, by level ofeducation and the percentages that had usedthe internet prior to the survey. The overallpenetration rate is relatively high starting fromKindergarten (60.6%) up to HBO/VWO (100%).

Level of education

60.6%

70.2%

64.3%

90.2%

92.2%

100%100%

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The internet was mostly used by youngpeople for downloading/streaminggames, music, films and images (77%),followed by e-mailing (74%) andaccessing social media sites (69%).

Games, Email, social media

Listening to a web radio and or watchingweb TV, finding information on goods andservices, downloading software other thangames were number 8, 9 and 10 on thelist of ‘internet most used for’ (42%).

Web radio/web TV

69%

42%

42%

51%

77%

42%

48%

Playing/streaming games, music, films, images

Social media

Emailing

Telephone/video calling

65%

74%

57%Consulting Wikis/ other information sources online

Listening to web radios/watching web TV

Finding information on goods and services

Downloading software other than games

Seeking health information

Chat sites, blogs, online discussions

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10(Top 3) (8-9-10)

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16.1%

@ Home

@ School

@ Commercial

facilities

@ Community

facilities

@ Workplace

Youth 5 -17 years

97.8% 43.0%

11.1% 1.5%

@ In mobility

9.6%

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Youth 18-24 years

Used the internet @...@home

98.8%

@school

42.1%

@ commercial facilities

32.9%

@ workplace

29.3%

@ in mobility

23.2%

@ community facilities

22.0%

@ Home

@ Workplace

@ School

@ Commercial

facilities

@ In mobility

@ Community

facilities

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20 hours per week or more

Communicating

52.4%

Daily or almost daily

Social media

86.6%

Reading newspapers

62.4%

Daily or almost daily

86.6% of all youth visited social media sites ‘daily or almost daily’,62.4% read newspapers and news magazines daily or almostdaily, and 52.4% spent 20 hours per week or more communicatingonline.

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Using the internet

According to the results of the 2017 ICT survey, young females weremore frequent users of the internet for communicating, using socialmedia and reading news and news magazines online, compared toyoung males.

Communicating online

20 hours or more per week

Using Social media

daily or almost daily

Reading online

newspaperdaily or

almost daily

51.2%Males 5-24 years

53.5%Females5-24 years 92.6%

81.1% 57.0%

67.0%

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AGE 18 - 2460.7% of youth in thisage group had used theinternet to communicate

AGE 12 - 1753.9% of youth ages 12-17had used the internet tocommunicate

AGE 5 - 1129.0% of young persons hadused the internet to communicate3 months prior to the survey

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25.2%

36.4%

43.9%

55.1%

55.1%

66.4%

67.3%

71.0%

75.7%

77.6%

36.2%

31.9%

60.6%

68.1%

66.0%

67.0%

74.5%

85.1%

89.4%

86.2%

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Using spreadsheet advanced functions to organiseand analyse data, such as sorting, filtering, using

formulas, creating charts (EXCEL,..)

Finding, downloading and installing software fromthe internet

Posting messages (e.g. to chat rooms, newsgroupsor forums)

Using basic arithmetic formulas in a spreadsheet(EXCEL,..)

Using software for electronic presentations(slides)(POWERPOINT,..)

Transferring files (e.g. digital camera, mobile phone,m-player,..)

Sending e-mails with attached files (document,picture, video)

Copying or moving a file or folder

Using word processing software (WORD,..)

Using copy and paste tools to duplicate or moveinformation within a document

ICT skills of youth 12-17 years

Female Male

As can be seen in the graph, the percentage of young females ages 12 – 17years with ICT skills was higher than that of males, except when it came down to‘Finding, downloading and installing software from the internet’, where youngmales had a slight advantage (36.4%), compared to young females (31.9%) .

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42.9%

58.3%

63.1%

64.3%

72.6%

75.0%

81.0%

92.9%

92.9%

95.2%

44.8%

60.9%

52.9%

72.4%

77.0%

81.6

82.8

83.9%

89.7%

88.5%

0 20 40 60 80 100

Using software for electronic presentations(slides)(POWERPOINT,..)

Copying or moving a file or folder

Using copy and paste tools to duplicate or moveinformation within a document

Transferring files (e.g. digital camera, mobilephone, m-player,..)

Using basic arithmetic formulas in a spreadsheet(EXCEL,..)

Using word processing software (WORD,..)

Sending e-mails with attached files (document,picture, video)

Finding, downloading and installing software fromthe internet

Posting messages (e.g. to chat rooms, newsgroupsor forums)

Using spreadsheet advanced functions to organiseand analyse data, such as sorting, filtering, using

formulas, creating charts (EXCEL,..)

ICT skills of youth 18-24 years

Female Male

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Other ICT

skills of

Youth 18

years and

older.

9.5%

21.4% 21.4%

31.0%

6.9%

13.8%

4.6%

21.8%

Computerprogramming using

a specialisedlanguage

Creating a webpage

Installing orreplacing an

operating system

Modifying orverifying the

configuration ofsoftware

applications

Male Female

skills

Comparing young males to young females, the resultsindicate that young males had the upper hand in computerprogramming, creating web pages, installing or replacingoperating systems and modifying or verifying configurationof software applications.

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The device that wasthe least used byyouth compared tothe use of laptopsand tablets was thedesktop computer.Just 19% of youthhad used a desktopcomputer 3 monthsprior to the survey.

Desktop computer

Young personshad a higher useof a laptop,according to theICT survey.According to theresults 37% of allyouth had used alaptop prior to thesurvey.

29% of youthaged 5 – 24years had used atablet 3 monthsprior to the ICTsurvey.

TabletLaptop

37%19% 29%

The youth of Aruba ages 5 – 24 yearshad a higher use of a laptop comparedto a desktop and or tablet.

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54.5

37.6

28.6

17.6

26.7

25.8

12.5

0.0 60.0

Pre-primaryeducation

Primaryeducation

Specialeducation

EPB

MAVO

HAVO/VWO

HBO/WO

3.0

12.9

14.3

21.6

24.4

24.2

25.0

0.0 30.0

Pre-primaryeducation

Primaryeducation

Specialeducation

EPB

MAVO

HAVO/VWO

HBO/WO

%%

The first graph shows that HBO/WO students had the highest percentage use of the desktop computer(25%), compared to students from lower levels of education. In the second graph HAVO/VWO studentshad the highest use of a laptop (71.0%), followed by HBO/VWO students (62.5%). The results in the thirdgraph show that 54.5% of youth in Pre-primary education and 37.6% in primary education had thehighest percentage use of a tablet.

School attending youth

Desktop computer Tablet

%

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6.1

23.0

0.0

25.5

47.8

71.0

62.5

0.0 80.0

Pre-primaryeducatio

Primaryeducation

Specialeducation

EPB

MAVO

HAVO/VWO

HBO/WO

Laptop

n

%

Desktop computer

Laptop

Tablet

Desktop, laptop, tablet

7.2%

5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24

20.7%

24.9%

22.1%

5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24

10.8%

37.8%

46.8%

55.8%

5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24

37.8%

16.8%

20.2%

40.3%

According to the ICT 2017 survey,the use of a desktop computerhad a lower penetration rateoverall throughout all age-groupscompared to the use of a laptop ortablet.

Laptops were used in relativelyhigh percentages by the youthin age groups 15 – 19 (46.8%)and 20 – 24 years (55.8%)..

The youth in age group5 -9 had the highest useof a tablet compared tothe other age groups(40.3%).

Desktop

Laptop

Tablet

Age group

Age group

Age group 24

• Almost 92% of youngpersons used a mobilephone daily

• The proportion of youthusing a mobile phone ‘atleast once a week’ (but notdaily) was 7.2%

• The group that used amobile phone ‘less than oncea week’ was just 1.2%

• 87% of young personswere on the internet dailyor almost daily

• The percentage of youththat used the internet atleast once a week (but notdaily) was 10.7%

• The group using theinternet less than once aweek was 2.3%

• The desktop computer,laptop and tablet wereused daily or almost dailyby almost 68% of all youth

• 25.7% had used thesedevices at least once aweek (but not daily)

• 6.4% they had used thedevices less than once aweek

Daily use mobile phone

92%

Daily use internet

87% 68%

Daily use Desktop Laptop Tablet

Less than once a week

At least once a week (not daily)

Daily/almost daily

1.2%

7.2%

91.6% 87.1%

10.7%

2.3%

Daily/almost daily

Less than once a week

At least once a week (not daily)

6.4%

25.7%

67.9%

Less than once a week

At least once a week (not daily)

Daily/almost daily

MOBILE PHONE INTERNET DESKTOP LAPTOP TABLET

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The results of the 2017 ICT survey indicated that the devices thatwere predominantly used by youth in Aruba were the mobile phone(used by 69.5% of youth), the laptop (37.2%) and the tablet (29.0%).When comparing the sexes, 69.1% of young males had used amobile phone 3 months prior to the survey, while for young femalesthis percentage was 69.9%. Male and female youth aged 20-24 yearshad the highest percentage use of a mobile phone (males 90.6% andfemales 92.2%).Internet use in Aruba by youth stood at a higher percentage (84%)when compared to the World’s youth (70%). As many as 83% ofyoung males in Aruba that participated in the survey used the internet3 months prior to the survey and for young females this percentagewas slightly higher (85%). The youth of Aruba mostly used theinternet at home (98.8%) and 86.6% visited social media sites dailyor almost daily.The results also showed that the percentage of female youth aged12-17 years with ICT skills was higher, in all but one skill(downloading and installing software from the internet), whencompared to young males. Comparing the use of a desktop computerto that of a laptop and or a tablet, a higher percentage of youth useda laptop (37%). When taking a closer look at the school attendingyouth, the use of a laptop increased in students attending secondaryeducation, while the use of a tablet decreased. The percentage ofyouth using a tablet was higher at the primary level of education.Based on the results from the ICT survey, we can conclude that themajority of youth who used a mobile phone, accessed the internet orused either a desktop computer, a laptop or a tablet, used it daily(92%, 87%, and 68%, respectively).

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