DUSHANBE, February 5, 2015, Asia-Plus – A new World Bank report, The Skills Road: Skills for Employability in Tajikistan, notes that few workers use computers on the job, and workers who do use computers are typically young employees in state-owned enterprises in the service sector.
Overall, only one-in-ten workers in Tajikistan use computers at work, the report notes. This is relatively low compared to other developing countries. In the Yunnan province in China 55 percent or workers use computers, and this share is 35 percent in Bolivia and Vietnam, and 30 percent in Sri Lanka (World Bank, 2013e).
In Tajikistan, younger workers are reportedly more than twice as likely to use computers at work as older workers. The share of workers using computers is the highest in state-owned enterprises or the government (26 percent) and in the services sector (20 percent).
Moreover, workers in richer households are considerably more likely to use computers at work than workers in poorer households, suggesting that higher paying jobs are more likely to require computer use, the report says.
