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   abdussamad

   January 7, 2012, 8:59 pm

   I’d like to see figures for how many people haven’t even heard of the Internet. I am sure there are some out there. I imagine the govt. will milk this census for all the propaganda value it can get. Oh look at how many people have mobiles and how many have TV sets and what not. That must mean that living standards are rising. Doesn’t matter that we have no numbers to compare with.

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      Rohan Samarajiva

      January 7, 2012, 9:15 pm

      Most of your questions are answered in the slideset at http://lirneasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/TaBOP4-LK-v4.pdf. Slide 27 shows that among the poor in Sri Lanka only 2 percent have not heard of the Internet. If that is the number for the poor, one can assume that for the population as a whole the number is around 1-2 %.

      You can see the results from a country-representative sample at http://lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=975766409. Or you can go to the Census and Statistics site and read the report.

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         abdussamad

         January 9, 2012, 9:06 am

         I remember when I lived in SL there was a program on Rupavahini about the web. Antharjaliya or something like that. So yeah I can imagine almost every knows about it by now.

         BTW those survey results do assume honesty and that doesn’t always apply to Pakistanis. People here will never admit that there is something that they don’t know. No way do 98% of a largely illiterate Pakistani population know about the interwebz :p

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   Jack Trish

   March 12, 2012, 10:59 pm

   It is not through the benevolence from the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that people expect our dinner, but using their regard to their own interest.
   The key of economic is to have some understanding that nobody knows.