Choosing the data
After reading the codebooks available, I decided that the most relevant for me is the GapMinder dataset.
The GapMinder is an world-view, with information about person income, employ rate, internet use rate, urban rate, and some more, that will be used to perform an analisys and try to answer the question bellow.
The question
Is the internet access rate correlated with the high technology export rate from countries around the globe?
As a Brazilian, I am particularly interested in determinating wheater of not the internet use rate is related to the exportation of high technology.
In my actual opinion, my country needs to export more industrialized goodies, rather than mainly exporting commodities.
While trying to understand how the internet can ameliorate my countries exportations, I will hate to also work with this questions:
- What is the impact of exportation of high technology in countries economics?
- What is the amount of high technology that is beeing exported exclusively by internet?
The codebook
The following columns were taken in account to perform my analisys
incomeperperson: 2010 Gross Domestic Product per capita in constant 2000 US$ - The inflation but not the differences in the cost of living between countries has been taken into account. [World Bank Work Development Indicators]
employrate: 2007 total employees age 15+ (% of population) - Percentage of total population, age above 15, that has been employed during the given year. [International Labour Organization]
Internetuserate: 2010 Internet users (per 100 people) - Internet users are people with access to the worldwide network. [World Bank]
"Internet users are individuals who have used the Internet (from any location) in the last 12 months. Internet can be used via a computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant, games machine, digital TV etc."
relectricperperson: 2008 residential electricity consumption, per person (kWh) - The amount of residential electricity consumption per person during the given year, counted in kilowatt-hours (kWh). [International Energy Agency]
urbanrate: 2008 urban population (% of total) - Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices (calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects) [World Bank]
htexp2010: High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) - High-technology exports are products with high R&D intensity, such as in aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and electrical machinery. [World Bank]
htc2010: High-technology exports (current US$) - High-technology exports are products with high R&D intensity, such as in aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and electrical machinery. Data are in current U.S. dollars. [World Bank]
The second question
Is the high technology exportation amount related to the Income Per Person?
The literature found
In order to better understand this two questions, I had to search in Google Scholar, using the following search terms: internet use and exportation of technology
And the results lead me to the following readings:
- Borich, Robert A. "Globalization of the US Defense Industrial Base: Developing Procurement Sources Abroad Through Exporting Advanced Military Technology." Public Contract Law Journal (2002): 623-677.
- Javalgi, Rajshekhar G., Charles L. Martin, and Patricia R. Todd. "The export of e-services in the age of technology transformation: challenges and implications for international service providers." Journal of Services Marketing 18.7 (2004): 560-573.
- Hsiao, Chun Hua, and Chyan Yang. "The intellectual development of the technology acceptance model: A co-citation analysis." International Journal of Information Management 31.2 (2011): 128-136.
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