COVID-19 has changed a lot and digitalized us. In this lockdown, peoples are doing everything from education to office work online at home. But do we know how many of us have access to the internet? And can we gauge the person’s backwardness by whether they have a computer, smart phone and internet? Let us estimate from the data of Household Integrated Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2018-19 on ICT indicators.

P & R Vol.2 Issue 8
COVID-19 has changed a lot and digitalized us. In this lockdown, peoples are doing everything from education to office work online at home. But do we know how many of us have access to the internet? And can we gauge the person’s backwardness by whether they have a computer, smart phone and internet? Let us estimate from the data of Household Integrated Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2018-19 on ICT indicators.

P & R Vol.2 Issue 8
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