Assessing digital competence and its relationship with the socioeconomic level of Chilean university students

Table 3 Descriptive statistics for DigComp-PED areas and indicators. Source: Prepared by the author

Digital competency area and indicator	Mean	Standard deviation
1. Information and digital literacy	0.477	0.164
Navigate, search, and filter data, information, and digital content	0.314	0.270
Evaluate data, information, and digital content	0.523	0.270
Digital data, information, and content management	0.595	0.226
2. Online communication and collaboration	0.582	0.131
Interact through digital technologies	0.506	0.285
Sharing through digital technologies	0.644	0.248
Citizen participation through digital technologies	0.672	0.257
Collaboration through digital technologies	0.464	0.277
Online behavior	0.737	0.214
Digital identity management	0.459	0.248
3. Digital content creation	0.455	0.145
Content development	0.585	0.281
Integrating and re-elaborating digital content	0.545	0.252
Copyright and intellectual property licenses	0.405	0.282
Programming	0.282	0.248
4. Network security	0.732	0.143
Device protection	0.813	0.232
Personal data and privacy protection	0.747	0.248
Health and wellbeing protection	0.670	0.241
Environmental protection	0.697	0.224
5. Problem solving	0.473	0.162
Technical problem solving	0.577	0.240
Identifying technological needs and responses	0.490	0.282
Creative use of digital technology	0.290	0.274
Identifying gaps in digital skills	0.534	0.281
Total Scale of Digital Competence	0.551	0.097