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so do 20.2 or 5.5% of spaniards not know what email is?

Trevor | 28 February 2004 11:53 AM | Of sewing machines, Splog

The headline figure this morning is 20%, but the survey (.doc) asks the question twice and the other answer is different. First there’s question 3:

I’m going to read you a list of apparatus and new technologies that are being used more and more frequently in Spain. Tell me, please, of each one whether you have it or not, and to what extent they are or would be necessary in your daily life.

very necessary
quite necessary
not particularly necessary
not necessary at all
doesn’t know what it is

	1	2	3	4	5	dunno	didn’t answer
Mobile telephone	14.5	44.9	23.8	16.3	0.3	0.1	0.1
Digital TV	0.8	7.5	32.7	56.2	2.2	0.4	0.2
Personal computer	11.5	39.5	19.8	27.8	0.8	0.4	0.1
Internet connection	8.6	30.4	23.8	32.5	3.5	1.0	0.3
DVD	1.8	12.6	36.5	43.7	3.8	1.0	0.5
Cable TV	1.1	10.6	32.3	50.2	4.6	0.8	0.4
Fax	2.7	18.6	27.9	46.0	3.5	0.8	0.5
Electronic mail	7.3	28.2	22.7	34.9	5.5	1.3	0.1

5.5% doesn’t sound too bad to me, but on to question 14:

Do you know what electronic mail is?

Knows what it is, uses it	29.7
Knows what it is, doesn’t use it	49.9
Doesn’t know what it is	20.2
Didn’t answer	0.2

This comes down to a Stats 101 interpretation problem. If I were a state statistician I’d be embarrassed by a questionnaire that provides such ambiguous results, particularly since the 20.2% figure leaves Spain looking fairly primitive.

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