criteria that affects a person's access to IT

Gender - males usually prefer using technology compared to females.
Geogrpahic location - more rural areas have worse connectivity compared with more busy, economised areas.
Disability - some disabilities do not allow you to use technology, we take this for granted
age - children somtimes to young to understand anything about the internet. young children and older adults are much less likely to have internet connections.

why does the digital divide exist?

because of the economic divide. people with higher income are able to afford the technology whereas people who are on lower incomes are not able to. as the cannot afford the technology the are left behind in terms of digital supremacy with wealthier nations pulling away from the rest.

boring stuff

Group	Members
A	Top management and professionals
B	Middle management
C1	Clerical workers
C2	Skilled manual workers
D	Semi-skilled workers
E	Manual workers

The national statistics socio-economic classification analytic classes
1	Higher managerial and professional occupations
1.1	Large employers and higher managerial occupations
1.2	Higher professional occupations
2	Lower managerial and professional occupation
3	Intermediate occupations
4	Small employers and own account workers
5	Lower supervisory and technical occupations
6	Semi-routine occupations
7	Routine occupations
8	Never worked and long-term unemployed