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Assessing Robustness of Asian Countries Ranking: The Case of Digital Divide Index

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  • Nilanjana Chakrabarty

    (Department of Business Administration, Assam University, Silchar, India)

  • Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee

    (Department of Business Administration, Assam University, Silchar, India)

Abstract

The term ‘digital divide' refers to the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas with regard to both their opportunities to access Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and to their use of Internet. Composite indicators are regularly used for measuring the divide and in benchmarking the country's performance. But often it creates controversies regarding the subjectivity that is connected with their construction methodology more specifically the weighting and aggregation issues. The paper attempts to assess the robustness of the ranks generated by the composite digital divide index using different weighting and aggregation schemes in case of Asian countries. Here four weighting techniques Iyengar-Sudarshan Method, Benefit of Doubt Method, Principal Component Analysis and Unobserved Component Model and three techniques of aggregation viz. Linear Aggregation, Geometric Aggregation and Weighted Displaced Ideal Method are used for mutual comparison.

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  • Nilanjana Chakrabarty & Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee, 2016. "Assessing Robustness of Asian Countries Ranking: The Case of Digital Divide Index," International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), IGI Global, vol. 7(1), pages 24-37, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jide00:v:7:y:2016:i:1:p:24-37
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