| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所碩士在職專班 === 98 === Internet has always been considered a public carrier. A wide range of applications and value-added creations are unrestrictedly and freely developed and promoted via Internet. Then， the economic welfare of the public had been enhanced. But the reality of the Internet deployment, the factors of the information and communication infrastructure, economic or humanity developments cause the "digital divide".
The result of the empirical study in the Taiwan ‘s 23 counties, the explanatory variables of computer penetration rate, college graduated rate, household income, the density of the enterprise, the age level 20-24 and the age level 25-34 have a significant positive impact on the broadband Internet penetration rate . The variable of the population density has a significant negative impact on the broadband Internet penetration rate. The capital county and the agricultural county dummy variables don’t have the significant impact on the broadband Internet penetration rate.
The comparison of the agricultural county and the capital county, for the influence of the computer penetration rate variable, the capital county is slightly lower than the agricultural county. For the influence of the household income variable, the agricultural county’s income elasticity is 2.5 times of the capital counties. For the influence of the density of the enterprise variable, the capital county is 2 times of the agricultural county.
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