The Ministry of Communication and information technology has carried out the survey of ICT usage in households on a regular basis (half annually); in order to measure different patterns of ICT usage among Egyptian households.

 

The survey aims at:

 

·    Providing the community and decision makers with the latest figures, trends and developments of ICT usage in households.

 

·    Identifying major characteristics of ICT users.

 

·    Identifying the major obstacles that hinder ICT diffusion across the country.

 

 

   The sample is drawn from the sample of Family Income, Expenditure and Consumption survey (FIECS) of 2004/2005; which is a multi-stage cluster and self-weighted sample. The size of this sample is 48000 households allocated among governorates and their urban/rural components in proportion to size.

 

 

   The household survey based on a random stratified sample adopted the rotation technique which is more efficient in capturing the dynamic changes in ICT usage variables across the surveyed households.

 

    The sample size of ICT usage in household's survey is allocated among 1200 areas (300 area × 70 households) involved a total of 21,000 households represented urban and rural areas; with a response rate of 89%.

 

Measure the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) usage by the employees of private enterprises in the Egyptian community.

 

 

It has been acquired from the census of enterprises for the year 2006.

 

 

Stratified sample, where the sampling unit measurement in the enterprise is determined according to the definition used by CAPMAS.

 

 

 

According to international organizations recommendations and international comparison requirements, it is preferred to focus on small, medium and large enterprises that have more than 9 employees when measuring ICT usages, which entails not focusing on the micro enterprises in the sample.

Hence, the sample consists of 80% (small, medium and large enterprises) whose employees exceed 9 employees and 20% (micro enterprises) whose employees are less than 9 employees. Micro enterprises were included in the sample because they employ a large portion of the employees included in the frame; therefore, they were not excluded from the sample.

 

 

1.      Micro enterprises in urban areas.

 

2.      Micro enterprises in rural areas.

 

3.      Small, medium and large enterprises in urban areas.

 

4.      Small, medium and large enterprises in rural areas.

 

 

To determine the number of enterprises included in each of the above mentioned strata, relative weights are used representing the relative importance of each of those strata in the frame or the population from which the sample is drawn, based on the number of included enterprises.

 

 

      Economic activities inside each stratum are distributed according to its normal distribution inside of each stratum in the frame. So if the activities in the micro enterprises in urban areas are distributed as follows: 40% manufacturing, 20% trade, 10% finance and insurance, then these weights will be used for micro enterprises in urban areas. Those weights will differ from a stratum to another according to the relative importance of activities inside each stratum, as explained in the frame.

 

Note: the sampling error should not exceed +/- 1.5 %.

Governmental and public sector enterprises: As for surveys in governmental and public sector enterprises, collection of data was implemented on a total of 3,754 enterprises from which 1,386 enterprises are governmental (including 110 ministries, 1,116 governorates & directorates and 160 general agencies) and 2,368 public and public business sector enterprises. The framework was obtained from the governmental administrative structure

Internet cafés: The survey was implemented on 8,061 internet cafés with a response rate of 61.9% (10,212 internet cafés) covering 27 governorates, where 4,438 represent urban areas and 549 represent rural areas.

IT Clubs: The IT Clubs survey was conducted on total of 1,540 clubs with a response rate of 73.4% (1,739 IT club) covering 27 governorates, where 915 represent urban areas and 216 represent rural areas.

 

Results of Survey conducted in 2007 on all schools in Egypt, which include 36,274 schools (31,411 governmental and 4,863 private) in cooperation with CAPMAS.

 

Results of Survey conducted on all private and public universities and institutes in cooperation with CAPMAS that include 313 public universities, 61 private universities and 104 private higher institutes.