Is There a Relationship between Making Digital Payments and Internet Usage, Digital Skills, and Education Worldwide? †
Abstract
:1. Objectives
2. Methodology
3. Results
- The level of Internet usage, i.e., the percentage of citizens who used the Internet (correlation coefficient = 0.721);
- The level of citizens’ digital skills, i.e., computer skills, basic coding, digital reading (correlation coefficient = 0.633);
- The level of citizens’ education, i.e., tertiary education enrollment rate (correlation coefficient = 0.659).
4. Implications
5. Originality Value
6. Contribution
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Antonijević, M.; Ivanović, Đ.; Vukmirović, V. Is There a Relationship between Making Digital Payments and Internet Usage, Digital Skills, and Education Worldwide? Proceedings 2023, 85, 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023085011
Antonijević M, Ivanović Đ, Vukmirović V. Is There a Relationship between Making Digital Payments and Internet Usage, Digital Skills, and Education Worldwide? Proceedings. 2023; 85(1):11. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023085011
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonijević, Marija, Đina Ivanović, and Valentina Vukmirović. 2023. "Is There a Relationship between Making Digital Payments and Internet Usage, Digital Skills, and Education Worldwide?" Proceedings 85, no. 1: 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2023085011