Considering that the intensive use of data is the
most important category in our exploratory study
(given the proposal that it demonstrates real advances
in the use of e-Research in the field), these results
were crossed with variables in age and educational
level to determine if a significant statistical relationship
exists between them and whether age and educational
level influence in a direct manner the intensive use of
data by researchers. For this statistical analysis Fisher’s
exact test was used to create a cross tabulation contingency
table, concluding that: 1) there was no association
observed between the categories of intensive use
of data and educational level categories given that the
value «p» in the contingency tables for each one of the
variable categories of age range was greater than 0.05;
2) no association was observed between the catego-
Figure 2. Intensive use of data by researchers.
ries of intensive use of data and the categories
defined by age range without including the academic
level of the respondent, given that the
value «p» in the contingency tables for each one
of the categories in academic levels was greater
than 0.05.