Information Consumption Differences between China-Urban and Rural Residents: Based on the Data of 2000-2007

Author

Tingting, Xiao

Author_Institution

Accounting Dept., Luoyang Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Luoyang, China

Volume

4

fYear

2009

fDate

26-27 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

627

Lastpage

630

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to compare the information consumption differences between urban and rural residents in the period of 2000-2007 in China from the aspects of coefficient, marginal propensity and composition of information consumption. The research indicates that information consumption of urban and rural residents has made rapid increases in the period of 2000-2007 and the rural residents had higher marginal propensity of information consumption than the rural residents and the gap of it was large.

Keywords

information use; social aspects of automation; information consumption difference; information consumption marginal propensity; rural resident; urban resident; Acceleration; Computer networks; Computer science education; IP networks; Industrial engineering; Information management; Innovation management; Medical services; Road transportation; TV; Information Consumption; Information Consumption Coefficient; Information Consumption Composition component; Marginal Propensity of Information Consumption;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3876-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIII.2009.610

Filename

5369043