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Table 3. Summary of composite types of digital poverty.
Quantity Composite types of digital poverty
7 The digital extremely poor (6 persons)
Physical+vulnerable+illiterate+idle+lonely+vain=the nonresistant digital extremely poor (5 persons)
Physical+vulnerable+illiterate+lonely+vain+resistant=the digital extremely poor without idleness (1 person)
6
Physical+illiterate+idle+lonely+vain+resistant=the unvulnerable digital extremely poor(2 persons)
Vulnerable+illiterate+idle+lonely+vain+resistant=the digital extremely poor with tools (4 persons)
Physical+vulnerable+illiterate+idle+vain=the nonresistant and unlonelydigital poor (3 persons)
Physical+illiterate+idle+lonely+vain=the unvulnerable and nonresistant digital poor (8 persons)
5 Vulnerable+illiterate+idle+lonely+vain=the nonresistant digital poor with tools (4 persons)
Vulnerable+illiterate+idle+resistant+vain=the unlonelydigital poor with tools (1 person)
Illiterate+idle+resistant+lonely+vain=the unvulnerable digital poor with tools (4 persons)
Physical+illiterate+lonely+vain=the unvulnerable, unlonely and nonresistant digital poor (1 person)
Vulnerable+illiterate+idle+lonely=the nonresistant digital poor with tools and not in vain (1 person)
Vulnerable+illiterate+idle+vain=the unlonely and nonresistant digital poor with tools (5 persons)
4 Vulnerable+illiterate+resistant+vain=the unlonelydigital poor with tools and without idleness (1 person)
Illiterate+idle+resistant+lonely=the unvulnerable and influentially digital poor with tools (1 person)
Illiterate+idle+lonely+vain=the unvulnerable and nonresistant digital poor with tools (3 persons)
Illiterate+lonely+resistant+vain=the unvulnerabledigital poor with tools and without idleness (2 persons)
Physical+illiterate+idle (1 person)
Vulnerable+illiterate+lonely (3 persons)
Vulnerable+illiterate+vain (2 persons)
Illiterate+idle+lonely (1 person)
3
Illiterate+idle+vain (4 persons)
Illiterate+lonely+resistant (1 person)
Illiterate+lonely+vain (2 persons)
Illiterate+resistant+vain (1 person)
Vulnerable+illiterate (1 person), Illiterate+idle (1 person),
2 Illiterate+vain (2 persons), Idle+lonely (3 persons)
Lonely+resistant (4 persons)+Lonely+vain (3 persons)
Vulnerable (1 person), Illiterate (1 person), lonely (20 persons),
1
Resistant (8 persons), Vain (6 persons)

2) Research finding 2: The more serious digital poverty is, the more types of digital poverty are
overlapped on an individual, and the less likely the digital poor are to obtain effective support from
social networks.
In the cases covered in this paper, the degree of digital poverty is positively proportional to the
number of digital poverty types. That is, the more digital poverty types are overlapped, the higher
the degree of digital poverty is, and the more difficult it is to reduce digital poverty. This is the
logical starting point for discussion in this part.
Through cross analysis of overlapping of digital poverty types on individuals and the individual’s
active seeking help in digital behaviors from social networks, the author finds that the more digital
poverty types overlap, the lower the frequency at which the digital poor actively seek support from
social networks.
In the composite digital poor of seven digital poverty types (the digital extremely poor) and those
of six digital poverty types, that is, in the eighteen cases of the first two groups in Table 3, there