Electronic government services in Brazil: an analysis based on measures of access and users’ internet skills

Abstract This article aims to analyze how measures to promote Internet access, and users’ competencies influence the use of electronic government services in Brazil. We adopted Sen’s Capability Approach as theoretical framework in order to analyze the microdata from the ICT Households 2013, a national-wide survey coordinated by the Regional Center for Studies on Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br). The results indicate that for social classes C (middle class), D and E (lower class) the increase in the odds ratio of the use of e-gov services is strongly influenced by both internet access preferably at home or work (individual access) as well as the users’ internet skills.