Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Leonel Cerno
Author-Email: leonel.cerno@uem.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Europea de Madrid
Author-Name: Teodosio Pérez Amaral
Author-Email: teodosio@ccee.ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpto. de Economía Cuantica
Title: Demand for Internet Access and Use in Spain
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze a new phenomenon: Internet demand in Spain. To
	do so, we use a new high quality data set and advanced econometric techniques for
	estimating Internet demand functions, incorporating the socio-demographic
	characteristics of the individuals. We begin with a graphic analysis of the data,
	searching for relationships between the different characteristics. Then we specify and
	estimate two econometric models, one for broadband access at home and another for
	Internet use intensity. We also find that 25.2% of the Spanish population accesses the
	Internet at home, but less than half uses broadband connection. This demand is
	positively related to income and other technological attributes and negatively related to
	socio-demographic attributes such as habitat and age. Our results are compatible with
	previous literature for other countries, although there is a important difference:
	broadband Internet connections are still considered as a luxury good in Spain.
Classification-JEL: C2, C25
Keywords: Broadband, Internet Access, Internet Use, Selection Bias Correction, Multinomial Logit Models, marginal effects, elasticities.
Length: 22 pages 
Creation-Date: 2005
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File-URL: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/7897/1/0506.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ucm:doicae:0506