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use and activities for which they are used. No less important is the information
regarding those who access radio, television and telephony, fundamentally in
a context of State policies that prioritize the distribution of speech and
audiovisual communication. The survey of information used an interactive
digital questionnaire developed by the INDEC Institute that was administered
through personal interviews, using electronic tablets. The National Survey on
Access and Use of Information Technologies and Communication 2015
(ENTIC) was administered to 3.804 households, belonging to a probabilistic
sample of private homes in the 31 urban agglomerates that have more than
26.8 million people. It was administered to people who were 5 years and older,
for which its representation reaches 8.4 million households and more than 24.7
million people of these ages. Among its indicators are: access to radio,
households due to availability of ICT goods, according to estimation domain.
It is observed at a national level that 68% used a computer, while the Internet
was use by 66.1%. With respect to cell phones, 72.8% use them. With regard
to the possession of computers, 67% have them, 61.8% have internet and
89.6% have cell phones. This fact emphasizes the need for new programs so
that computers are available in schools from kindergarten. This way, those who
do not have access to computers in their homes can learn from them at
schools.
Its objective was to make society literate in ICT, democratizing access to
technological resources and information, thus enabling ordinary citizens to
interpret statistical information, awakening the critical spirit, without social
discrimination, economic or spatial, reaching the entire country; implement
accompanying actions for the incorporation of technologies in educational
practices and in institutional management. In 2016, the program was
suspended.
Currently, work has begun on the cell phone as a teaching tool in Statistics,
since it is accessible to the vast majority of students, who can share with their
parents at home.
The INDEC (National Institute of Statistics and Census) inaugurated in 2017
a program of Statistical Literacy, with a talk in which more than 60 secondary
students of the City of Buenos Aires participated. The program is aimed at
publicizing the Institute's production and promoting the proper use of
statistical data.
The talk was in charge of INDEC technicians who explained the process of
production of statistical information, where thematic, operational and
methodological aspects of the next National Household Expenditure Survey
and the current Consumer Price Index of national coverage were exposed. . It
also detailed how to perform processing, searches and analysis in databases.

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