Mobile Phone Technologies in Coping with the Challenges and Opportunities of CPEC by the Youth of Rural Mountainous Areas of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Table 1
Frequency of age, gender, and access to emerging technologies and mobile phones or a necessary piece of technology.
Variables
Frequency
Percent
Age (in years)
Less than 20
49
18.0
20–25
208
76.5
25–30
13
4.8
Above 30
2
0.7
Total
272
100.0
Gender
Male
133
48.9
Female
139
51.1
Total
272
100.0
Access to technologies at household level
Telephone
9
3.3
Computer
14
5.1
TV
31
11.4
Laptop
11
4.0
Internet devices
1
0.4
Telephone and computer
1
0.4
Telephone and TV
5
1.8
Telephone and laptop
6
2.2
Computer and TV
26
9.6
Computer and laptop
7
2.6
Computer and internet devices
1
0.4
TV and laptop
21
7.7
Telephone, computer and TV
9
3.3
Telephone, TV and laptop
7
2.6
Computer, TV and laptop
39
14.3
TV, laptop and internet devices
1
0.4
Telephone, computer, TV and laptop
32
11.8
Computer, TV, laptop, and internet devices
4
1.5
Telephone, computer, TV, laptop, and internet devices
