Digital skills have become important for navigating in today’s information society. While prior digital inequality research has mostly focused on studying general internet uses and skills, research on smartphone-specific inequalities is still scarce. In addition, existing measurement instruments mostly rely on survey-based self-reports or small-scale laboratory-based performance tests that are susceptible to measurement and representation errors. In this study, we examine the feasibility of using novel scenario-based measures to evaluate the level of smartphone skills in the general population. Scenario-based measures evaluate smartphone skills by assessing how well respondents perform a set of smartphone activities described in a hypothetical situation.
