Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Gender (In)equality and Social Development: Issues of Health, Education, Environment and Other SDG Implications, Springer International Publishing Ag, ss.253-270, 2025
With the Covid-19 pandemic commencing in March 2020 and the initiation of online education, information technologies have become more popular among young people, thus making education and information retrieval the primary uses of the internet. This motivates us to investigate the probability of young people using the internet for informational purposes, utilizing the Household Information Technology Usage Survey (HITUS) micro-dataset collected by the Turkish Statistical Institute between 2004 and 2021, using Heckman's two-stage probit method. Our findings revealed that males are more likely to use the Internet for educational purposes than females and that young people in urban regions are more likely to engage in online educational activities. Interestingly, larger household sizes reduce the probability of Internet use for educational purposes. We also discovered that Southeastern Anatolia was the least likely to use the Internet for educational purposes during the period studied. Finally, we found that individuals whose household heads have a high school or university degree are more likely to use the Internet for educational purposes.