Computer Literacy among Employees of Government and Non-Government Agencies: Basis for the Formulation of Computer Training Program

This study was undertaken to determine the computer literacy among government and nongovernment agencies in the province of Antique to be able to formulate a computer training program. The subjects of the study were the 304 randomly selected employees coming from the various offices from southern to northern parts of the province. The data for the comparative descriptive research were obtained through a researcher-made instrument. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The mean was used to describe the level of computer literacy. For analysis of difference in computer literacy between two groups of respondents, t-test was used. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine whether computer literacy was significantly different among respondents categorized into three or more groups. The alpha level for inferential tests was set at 0.05. The findings of the investigation revealed that the computer literacy among employees of government and non-government agencies as a whole group was quite low. Both male and female employees had moderate level of computer literacy. In the light of those findings, the generally low level of computer literacy among employees of government agencies provides a strong reason for another cycle of computer literacy training among these employees.