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Digital Divide: Empirical Study of CIUS 2020

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  • Joann Jasiak
  • Peter MacKenzie
  • Purevdorj Tuvaandorj

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Canada and other major countries are investigating the implementation of ``digital money'' or Central Bank Digital Currencies, necessitating answers to key questions about how demographic and geographic factors influence the population's digital literacy. This paper uses the Canadian Internet Use Survey (CIUS) 2020 and survey versions of Lasso inference methods to assess the digital divide in Canada and determine the relevant factors that influence it. We find that a significant divide in the use of digital technologies, e.g., online banking and virtual wallet, continues to exist across different demographic and geographic categories. We also create a digital divide score that measures the survey respondents' digital literacy and provide multiple correspondence analyses that further corroborate these findings.

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  • Joann Jasiak & Peter MacKenzie & Purevdorj Tuvaandorj, 2023. "Digital Divide: Empirical Study of CIUS 2020," Papers 2301.07855, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2023.
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