FIGURE 5.

Bivariate association between Internet use in country of origin (t – 1) and stock of migrants who register as residents in Italy (t) from selected origin countries

NOTES: Bivariate correlation = 0.24 (dropping to 0.15 after removing the few outliers). Regional classification from the World Bank. “EAP”: East Asia and Pacific (China, Philippines); “ECA”: Europe and Central Asia (Albania, France, Germany, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine); “LAC”: Latin America and Caribbean (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela); “MENA”: Middle‐East and North Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia); “NA”: North America (United States, Canada); “SA”: South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka); “SSA”: Sub‐Saharan Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal).

SOURCES: Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), ITU.