Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills

Eszter Hargittai; Yuli Patrick Hsieh

doi:10.1177/0894439310397146

Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills

Eszter Hargittai^*, Yuli Patrick Hsieh

^*Corresponding author for this work

Communication Studies

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Abstract

There is a dearth of survey instruments for measuring Internet skills. This article presents results from additional implementations of a previously-developed index measure. It considers the performance of the original instrument over time as well as shortened versions of it on two surveys of different populations. Drawing on analyses of five different data sets, the article makes recommendations for various length survey items for measuring people's web-use skills.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	95-107
Number of pages	13
Journal	Social Science Computer Review
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439310397146
State	Published - Feb 2012

Keywords

Internet
digital divide
digital inequality
digital literacy
measures
methodology
skills
surveys
web use

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences(all)
Computer Science Applications
Library and Information Sciences
Law

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