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mirazchiyski ■ the digital divide ...
country (Denmark, Hong Kong, Netherlands and Switzerland). These
countries were included in this study due to their importance in terms of
cross-country comparison. Their results, however, need to be taken with
caution because the estimates may be biased due to the sample coverage.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)
and Ontario (Canada) are benchmarking participants.
Table 1. Sample sizes and their population estimates
Countries Sample Size Population Estimate
Buenos Aires (Argentina)* 1,076 41,200
Australia 5,326 264,948
Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador)* 1,556 5,068
Canada (Ontario)* 3,377 139,615
Chile 3,180 222,720
Croatia 2,850 44,193
Czech Republic 3,066 83,193
Denmark† 1,767 58,249
Germany 2,225 841,762
Hong Kong† 2,089 59,611
Korea 2,888 562,234
Lithuania 2,756 30,842
Netherlands† 2,197 183,212
Norway‡ 2,436 56,894
Poland 2,870 365,863
Russian Federation 3,626 1,124,977
Slovak Republic 2,994 49,186
Slovenia 3,740 16,870
Switzerland† 3,225 85,888
Thailand 3,646 694,162
Turkey 2,540 1,196,184
*Benchmarking participant
†Not meeting the sampling requirements
‡Grade 9 population
Data about students’ CIL achievement and SES, ICT infrastructure
and use, as well as other basic individual and demographic characteristics
from 20 countries is used in the analyses: the Netherlands had to be ex
cluded from the study due to lack of data on the SES measure.
Measures
Assessment items in ICILS 2013 are tasks distributed in four modules and
each student takes only two modules, assigned to him or her at random.
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country (Denmark, Hong Kong, Netherlands and Switzerland). These
countries were included in this study due to their importance in terms of
cross-country comparison. Their results, however, need to be taken with
caution because the estimates may be biased due to the sample coverage.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)
and Ontario (Canada) are benchmarking participants.
Table 1. Sample sizes and their population estimates
Countries Sample Size Population Estimate
Buenos Aires (Argentina)* 1,076 41,200
Australia 5,326 264,948
Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador)* 1,556 5,068
Canada (Ontario)* 3,377 139,615
Chile 3,180 222,720
Croatia 2,850 44,193
Czech Republic 3,066 83,193
Denmark† 1,767 58,249
Germany 2,225 841,762
Hong Kong† 2,089 59,611
Korea 2,888 562,234
Lithuania 2,756 30,842
Netherlands† 2,197 183,212
Norway‡ 2,436 56,894
Poland 2,870 365,863
Russian Federation 3,626 1,124,977
Slovak Republic 2,994 49,186
Slovenia 3,740 16,870
Switzerland† 3,225 85,888
Thailand 3,646 694,162
Turkey 2,540 1,196,184
*Benchmarking participant
†Not meeting the sampling requirements
‡Grade 9 population
Data about students’ CIL achievement and SES, ICT infrastructure
and use, as well as other basic individual and demographic characteristics
from 20 countries is used in the analyses: the Netherlands had to be ex
cluded from the study due to lack of data on the SES measure.
Measures
Assessment items in ICILS 2013 are tasks distributed in four modules and
each student takes only two modules, assigned to him or her at random.
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