The thesis focuses on the effect of sociodemographic factors on the digital divide among older adults. The digital divide occurs between users and non-users of information and communication technologies (ICT). From the ICT, the Internet has been selected and is the main theme of the entire diploma thesis. The theoretical part first presents aging of the population and its impact, history of the Internet, and meaning of the digital divide. This is followed by a detailed overview of five sociodemographic factors and their effect on the Internet use. The empirical part examines secondary data from the quantitative research entitled Media habits of older people (65 and older) from 2018. To analyze the data, we chose the bivariate analysis to verify the effect of the five independent variables on the dependent variable. The aim of the research was to determine whether there are differences in the Internet use among older adults in regard to gender, age, education, place of residence, and number of people in the household. Statistically significant differences are observed with reference to age, education, and number of people in the household. There are no statistically significant differences in gender and place of residence.
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