Overall computer literacy reported in the first half of 2016 for Sri Lanka has reached 27.5% showing an increase of 0.9 percentage points from 2015 (first half) to 2016 (first half).
The Census and Statistics Department report on Computer Literacy Statistics for the first half of 2016 reveals that about 62.1 percent of the households have acquired the first computer during 2010 to 2014 and 2015 to mid of 2016, about 15.0 percent acquisition computers.
The urban sector shows the highest computer literacy rate (38.5%) among residential sectors. Computer literacy rate for Rural and Estate are 26.1% and 9.9% respectively.
Among the provinces with the highest level of computer literacy is reported from the Western province (38.5%) while the lowest percentage is reported from Eastern province.
The survey results reveal that higher the level of education higher the computer literacy.
The group with G.C.E.(A/L) or above level of education shows the highest computer literacy rate (71.3%). Also computer literacy is higher among those who are literate in English language (72.5%).
Computer literacy among male (29.3%) is higher than that of female (26.0%) in first half of 2016. Young youths (15 to 19 years) show the highest computer literacy rate (60.6%) among all other age groups.
Age 50 years and above groups show low computer literacy rates Computer literacy among the employed population who are aware of computer in Sri Lanka is around 64.8 % in 1st half of 2016 and the positions such as Managers, Senior Officials and Legislators (76.1%), Professionals (90.3%), Technical and Associate professionals (88.7%) and Clerks and Clerical support workers (91.5%) have higher computer literacy.
However, even among the individuals engage in Elementary occupations 27.3 percent are computer literate.
The unemployed aged 20 to 24group shows highest computer literacy. The survey results reveal that among unemployed many have at least some ICT skills.
Majority of those who are computer literate have received training from Private institutions or School/University. The training received through Government training are comparatively low (6.0%), however in the Estate sector this percentage is about 5.7%.
Different usage patterns of internet usage can also be observed among districts Colombo district shows the highest percentage (30.1%) of population using internet while Trincomalee district shows the lowest percentage (3.3%). The survey results reveals that 8.6 percent of the household population aged 5 – 69 years has used E–mail facility at least once during the last 12 months period.
Highest e-mail usage is reported from the Colombo district (19.2%) followed by Gampaha district (12.6%). The lowest e–mail usage among the districts has reported from the Anuradhapura district. The Table 8 depicts that 15.1 % of the population aged 5 to 69 years uses the internet facility at least once during last twelve months.
The report shows the high popularity of e-mail and internet among youth who are in the age group of 15 – 29 years. Among youths in 20 - 24 years age group, above one out of every three persons has used the internet facility at least once during the last 12 months and the same group shows the highest usage of e-mail.
If a desktop or laptop is available at a household then that household is considered as a computer owned household. In 2016, at least one computer is available in 22.5% of households in the country. That is more than one out of every five households owns either a desktop or a laptop computer.
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