Digital Divide: Evidence from the 2020 Canadian Internet Use Survey (opens in new tab)

arXiv:2301.07855v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies inequality in digital participation across socioeconomic and demographic groups using the 2020 Canadian Internet Use Survey (CIUS). We combine survey-weighted logistic Lasso, an exact Shapley decomposition of age--education gaps, a sequential logit, and a bifactor item response theory (IRT) measure of digital literacy to identify who is excluded, why gaps persist, and where along the adoption path they arise. Educati...