United States digital divide: State level analysis of spatial clustering and multivariate determinants of ICT utilization

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-32

  Pick, James B ^a   Sarkar, Avijit ^a   Johnson, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Digital divide; Policy; Socio economic factors; Spatial; Technology utilization

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923335362     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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