Digital inequality in Mexico: an analysis of the reasons for nonaccess and non-use of the internet

The objective of the article is to analyze the barriers to access and use of Information and Communication Technologies in rural and urban areas of Mexico. The data come from the National Survey on Availability and Use of Information Technologies in Households 2018. The empirical analysis consists of explaining the non access and non-use of the internet, conditioned on a set of demographic and socio-economic characteristics, through of multinomial logistic regressions. The results reflect the cost, age, low levels of education and lack of digital skills are related to non-connectivity and non-use of the internet in rural and urban contexts, although with different magnitudes. Hence, the need to implement public policies aimed at promoting access and fostering the efficient use of cyberspace in both contexts.