Global Findex database provides this dataset on the percentage of the population aged 15 and over who do not own a smartphone, citing cost or secondary education attainment as the reason. The data likely contains country-level indicators derived from surveys. Its specific temporal and geographic coverage requires verification after download.
Use Cases
- Analyzing correlations between education levels and technology affordability across countries (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the impact of economic barriers on mobile technology adoption (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Benchmarking national digital inclusion metrics for policy development (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the World Bank platform.
- Sourced from the authoritative Global Findex database.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Global Findex database
- Collection Method
- Likely derived from survey data.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Likely global or multi-country, but specific coverage is unknown.