DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT - India Human Development Survey Forum | October 2024 - Who has Information and Communications Technology Access in

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Who has Information and Communications Technology Access in India? A Gender-based Analysis -Ritika Jain The paper examines the determinants of India’s information and communications technology (ICT) access. [...] We use the second wave of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) of 2011–2012, a nationally representative survey at the individual level, and find that ICT ownership and usage are abysmally low for women compared to men. [...] Through the decomposition analysis, we find that although the log wage differential decreased between 2005 and 2011, this reduction is overshadowed by a larger portion of the differential being attributed to different treatment of the same skills, indicative of potential discrimination Figure 1. [...] The second round re- interviewed most of these households in 2011-12 (N=42,152) and data for the same is available via ICPSR. [...] IHDS 3 has been jointly conducted by researchers from the University of Maryland, the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Indiana University and University of Michigan.

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