Recently Eurostat the results of a survey of citizens of the member countries of the union regarding their “digital” skills. The survey was conducted in 2019 before the whole story with the coronavirus pandemic. But this does not diminish its value, because it is better to prepare for troubles in advance and, as European officials found out, having children in the family increased the digital skills of adults.
So, in 2019, in the European Union (EU), 16% of respondents aged 74 to 16 with children under 64 had a basic or higher level of digital skills. This is 1% more than in 2017 and 3% more than in 2015. Low digital skills were reported by 28% of citizens in the same age group who also had children under the age of 16 in their families.
The percentage of “basically versed” in IT people who did not have children in the family was 11% lower (53% of the total) than those who lived with children. Probably no one had enough smart words to shine in the interrogation. But seriously, the presence of children makes citizens to show this or that activity on the Internet and master gadgets.
Among EU Member States, Finland had the highest proportion of persons aged 16 to 74 living in a household with children under the age of 16 who reported having basic or above basic general digital skills ( 88%. It is followed by the Netherlands (83%), Sweden (81%), Germany and Estonia (each with 80%).
The lowest values were observed in Bulgaria (32%), Romania (34%), Italy (45%), Cyprus (54%) and Poland (55%). A complete list of countries and their respective shares of digitally trained citizens can be found in the table above. Knowledge is power!
Source: 3dnews.ru