Historical Trends in Niagara’s ICT Sector, 2001 to 2022
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Title
Historical Trends in Niagara’s ICT Sector, 2001 to 2022
Description
Information and communications technology (ICT) is a broad range of industries comprising technologies related to communications media (including wireless signals) and computers, including software, apps, digital platforms, data storage, management and dissemination, and audiovisual systems. ICT gadgets, conduits and platforms include “the Internet, wireless networks, cell phones, and other communication mediums.”
The data cover a 20-year period (2001 to 2022) and consist of absolute and percentage changes over time. This paper also includes the national location quotients for each of the industries. We included the location quotients because they indicate an area’s level of specialization in each industry. Specifically, in this case, it allows us to compare a region’s job concentration in its ICT sector relative to the total job concentration in Ontario and Canada’s ICT sector.
The data focuses on Niagara. However, for comparative reasons, it also includes provincial and national figures and trends for the same period as well as data from a select number of Census
Metropolitan Areas (CMA) within Ontario that have sizeable ICT sectors.
The data cover a 20-year period (2001 to 2022) and consist of absolute and percentage changes over time. This paper also includes the national location quotients for each of the industries. We included the location quotients because they indicate an area’s level of specialization in each industry. Specifically, in this case, it allows us to compare a region’s job concentration in its ICT sector relative to the total job concentration in Ontario and Canada’s ICT sector.
The data focuses on Niagara. However, for comparative reasons, it also includes provincial and national figures and trends for the same period as well as data from a select number of Census
Metropolitan Areas (CMA) within Ontario that have sizeable ICT sectors.
list of authors
Charles Conteh
Publisher
Brock University
Date Issued
September 2023