Digital use categories and self-reported academic difficulty among graduate students in Kyrgyzstan

Survey data from 95 graduate students at a public university in Kyrgyzstan, collected in April 2026. Participants rated the intensity of their use of six digital categories (social media, YouTube, messaging applications, film and series platforms, web browsing, online gaming) and their overall academic difficulty, each on a 0 to 10 single-item scale, and indicated whether they experienced unease when unable to access the internet. The deposit contains the anonymised analytic dataset, a codebook documenting every variable and all data-cleaning decisions, and the scripts used to produce all reported analyses. Direct identifiers (email addresses and telephone numbers, collected for recruitment purposes only) were removed before deposit and are not shared. Two duplicate submissions were resolved by retaining the first response, giving N = 95 from 97 raw records.