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• Manuel – Measuring the Information Society – The ICT Development Index – 2009 - v1.01
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1 – Introduction
  • Chapter 2 – ICT Market Overview
    • 2.1 Fixed and mobile cellular telephony
    • 2.2 Internet and broadband developments
    • 2.3 Market outlook
    • 2.4 From indicator to index
  • Chapter 3 – The ITU ICT Development Index (IDI): background and methodology
    • 3.1 Background to the creation of a single ITU ICT index
    • 3.2 Concept and methodology of the IDI
  • Chapter 4 – The ITU ICT Development Index (IDI): presentation and discussion of results
    • 4.1 Overall IDI results
    • 4.2 A closer look at the IDI sub-indices: ICT access, use and skills
    • 4.3 IDI analysis by level of development and income
  • Chapter 5 – Measuring the Digital Divide
    • 5.1 Applying the IDI to measure the digital divide
    • 5.2 Results of the digital divide analysis
  • Chapter 6 – ICT Price Basket
    • 6.1 Overview and main objectives
    • 6.2 ICT Price Basket methodology
    • 6.3 Results and analysis
  • Chapter 7 – Conclusions
  • List of references
  • Explanatory notes
  • Annex 1: ICT Development Index (IDI) methodology
    • 1. Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
    • 2. Definition of the indicators included in the IDI
    • 3. Imputation of missing data
    • 4. Normalization of data
    • 5. Weighting and aggregation
    • 6. Calculating the IDI
    • 7. Sensitivity analysis
  • Annex 2: ICT Price Basket methodology
    • 1. Fixed telephone sub-basket
    • 2. Mobile cellular sub-basket
    • 3. Fixed broadband Internet sub-basket
    • 4. Statistics
  • Annex 3: List of economies included in the IDI and the ICT Price Basket by region
  • Annex 4: Statistical tables of indicators used to compute the IDI
  • Annex 5: Statistical tables of tariffs used to compute the ICT Price Basket