ABSTRACT
This chapter examines World Bank indicators and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data to describe differences between nations on the African continent in relation to cell phone ownership and internet access. Preliminary chi-square analysis allows one to explore factors associated with a cell phone in the households of childbearing-aged women captured in DHS's representative samples. The chapter also examines the crosstabulation of whether a household has a cell phone and the highest educational level of female respondents. Households with male heads are more likely to have a member who owns a cell phone. Married women are more likely to live in homes in which a member owns a cell phone. The respondents' current marital or union status and its association with household cell phone ownership is examined. In examining aggregate data from African nations, mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions overall and account ownership among women are increasing.
