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