Survey on ICT Equipment and Use in Households 2013

The Survey on the equipment and use of information and communication technologies in households (TIC-L) informs on the ICT equipment (television, landline telephone, mobile telephone, computer equipment, Internet connection) of households and the use that the population makes of computers, Internet and e-commerce. It is an annual sample-based survey carried out by the INE in collaboration with Idescat, by means of an agreement between both institutes. Idescat extends the results offered by this operation for the Catalonia area. The information obtained is comparable between autonomous communities, Spain and other countries.

The results on the equipment of ICT in households are broken down by household characteristics (size of municipality and size of household). The tables containing the results for the use of ICT offer information broken down by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

The information published refers to homes in which at least one person aged between 16 and 74 years lives and to people in this same age group.

Two important aspects of this edition of the survey are, on the one hand, that the data has been calculated using population estimates taken from the 2011 Census and, on the other, that the results on the use of ICTs have been calibrated by nationality, as well as applying the traditional calibration for sex and age. These two situations have caused a break in the data series published up until this year and do not permit homogenous comparisons. It is therefore necessary to revise the data in the ICT-L publications corresponding to years prior to 2013. This revision will consist of recalculating the data in consideration of the new population estimates derived from the Population Census and the new calibration by nationality.

As well as the results for 2013, information also appears in the Economy section for this operation in previous years. A simplified version of the results is also available in the economic structure indicators.