Censis, among ‘inactive’ non-internet users at almost 34%, the least educated in difficulty

In the universe of employed people, ‘non-internet users’ are limited to about 5% of the adult population. However, in the ‘inactive’ (pensioners, housewives and students), this percentage grows to 33.9% of the total. The low activity rate of women in Italy (55.2% in total), but below 40% in some southern regions, does not favor digital inclusion. This is what emerges from the study carried out by Censis in collaboration with the Tim Study Center on the theme ‘The digitization of Italians. Pushers and driving elements’, presented during the ‘4 weeks 4 inclusion’ event on the theme of inclusion. If, among people with a low level of education, exclusion from the Internet reaches significant shares of the population (among those who have at most the middle school license it reaches over 43%), the segment of the population with low educational qualifications that uses the Internet also sees an advance. the gap compared to the more educated. This can be understood by comparing the shares of those who have increased their use of the network in the last year (28.6% among the less educated, 48.5% among graduates). In short, the digital divide is strongly correlated with the level of education. Among those who have the highest grade of eighth grade, people in difficulty are the majority (58.7%). But a share of people exposed to the digital divide is also present among those with a higher education qualification (15.8%). Digital skills are strongly influenced by whether or not they are part of the active population. Among the employed, the share of those in difficulty slightly exceeds 5%, but rises to 11.3% among the unemployed and reaches almost half of the inactive (44.6%). Those who are not engaged in a job, (which in 78.7% of cases involve the use of digital means), have far fewer opportunities to use and develop their digital skills, the study underlines.