中国老年人数字不平等的社会经济差异:来自全国代表性样本的结果
Hongchao Hu1, Wenqian Xu2,3
1School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China.
PloS one
|April 2, 2024
概括
在中国的老年人中,数字不平等仍然存在. 社会经济地位对互联网的访问和使用产生重大影响,特别是在年轻和老年人群中,突出了针对数字化包容性政策的需要.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 数字包容研究 数字包容研究
- 衰老的社会学 衰老的社会学
背景情况:
- 在全球范围内,数字不平等不成比例地影响着老年人.
- 了解数字接入的年龄和社会经济相关差异对于公平的技术采用至关重要.
- 中国人口快速老龄化给数字化包容带来了独特的挑战.
研究的目的:
- 调查中国老年人的数字不平等,区分年轻人 (60-74岁) 和老年人 (75岁以上) 的年龄组.
- 识别与互联网接入相关的因素,使用模式 (频率,广度),数字技能和社会支持.
- 检查社会经济地位在不同老年人群中塑造数字参与中的作用.
主要方法:
- 利用了2018年中国纵向老龄化社会调查 (CLASS) 的数据,其中包括11419名60岁以上的受访者.
- 采用描述性统计数据来分析互联网访问和使用的普遍性.
- 应用多重回归分析来确定数字访问,技能和支持的关键决定因素.
主要成果:
- 只有40.22%的老年人有互联网接入,其中18.27%经常使用互联网.
- 社会经济因素对互联网访问和使用产生了重大影响.
- 高学历的年轻老年人表现出更频繁,更有意识和更有能力的互联网使用;更高的经济地位与更大的互联网使用社会支持相关.
结论:
- 在中国老年人中存在显著的数字沟,按年龄和社会经济地位分层.
- 更高的社会经济地位与互联网访问和使用的增加有关,特别是对老年人来说.
- 有针对性的政策对于支持社会经济不利的老年人和促进数字公平至关重要.
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