Eustat
Survey on the Information Society-Families
Identification
- Name of the operation.
- Survey on the Information Society-ESI-Families
- Operation Code.
- 220122 (Basque Statistics Plan)
- Responsible body
- EUSTAT
- Periodicity
- Monthly from 2009
- Type of operation.
- Sampling survey
- Methodology according to the origin of the data
- Direct collection of primary data by sampling
Objectives
Most important objectives of the operation:
The generic objective of the Survey on the Information Society -Families (ESIF) is to provide political heads, economic and social agents, University, private researchers and citizens in general, with periodic informaiton about the penetratioin of new Information and Communications Technology -ICT- on the population of the A.C. of the Basque Country.
The general objective may be expressed in three specific objectives:
1) Know the ICT equipment of the population in the household, in the study centre, at the work place, and the use thereof, expecially those referring to the Internet.
2) Detect the points of interest for the population on the web in relatioin to different areas: commercial transactions, the most used services and most visited web sites.
3) Analyse the level of penetration of these ICT technologies in the Basque socieity in relation to other socieities in the region and establish future lines of behaviour for the study population.
Scope
- Population:
- Populatioin to which the operation refers: persons aged 6 and over who reside in family households.
- Geographic:
- Area to which the operaiton refers: Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and Provinces.
- Time frame:
- Date or period to which the data refer in the statistic: Six monthly data: the data refer to the second or fourth quarter of each natural year.
Concepts and Definitions
ICT equipment in the population
Sample design
The Survey on the Information Society - Families (ESI-Families) is a sampling survey on the population of the A.C. of the Basque Country aged 6 and over.
A sample panel of 5,088 family households is taken as a base, selected for the Survey on the Population in Relation to Activity (PRA) in the same reference quarter. A random selection of a first person per household is taken and, in addition, when there are occupants or students, one of each from the same origin. Since 2003 the sample is completed with all minors aged 6 to 14 years to reach a sample of nearly 7,500 individuals.
The selection criteria is based on a Kish table made with the individual number and week number as fundamental coordinates.
The group of selected persons (one per household plus students, workers and minors aged 6 to 14) constitute the sample of the ESI-Families. The interview will be carried out using the specificly attached questionnaire.
The questionnaire does not contain the sociodemographic characteristics of people surveyed as this information is found in the PRA data base -referring to the same period- and are previously incorporated in the use of the data.
Questionnaires
Survey on the Information Society-Families
Dissemination
Printed publication:
Statistics Bulletin -Six monthly-
Information Society-Basque Country-Annual-
- Internet: www.eustat.es
- Press releases
- Data-Bank
