ICT Kids Online Brazil

Survey Objectives

The objective of the ICT Kids Online Brazil is to generate evidence regarding Internet use by children in Brazil. Conducted since 2012, it produces indicators on opportunities and risks related to the online participation of children 9 to 17 years old in the country. The survey also interviews parents or legal guardians about their perceptions and mediation regarding the use of the Internet by their children.

Survey Areas

The TIC Kids Online Brazil survey has fixed modules (annual collection) and rotating modules (other frequencies) and interviews children and their parents or legal guardians. It investigates dimensions of access, use and appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICT), such as:

For children:

Connectivity and dynamics of use;
Online activities;
Digital skills;
Risks and harms – aggressive/sexual/cross-cutting/consumption;
Mediation for Internet use.

For parents and legal guardians:

Connectivity and dynamics of use;
Mediation for Internet use;
Safe Internet use.

Institutional Support

The survey is part of the Global Kids Online and Latin American Kids Online research networks and is supported by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

International References

The survey adopts the conceptual and methodological framework developed by the EU Kids Online and Global Kids Online networks.

Methodology

The sample plan of the survey uses information from the most recently available Census and National Household Sample Survey (Pnad) or the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous Pnad), carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Face-to-face interviews are conducted in households in urban and rural areas. The survey sample is stratified and conglomerated in various stages, according to the domains of interest for presentation of results.