Information Society

Eurostat and the National Statistical Offices have developed a Methodological Manual for the surveys on ICT usage in enterprises and households.

Main objectives of this manual is to provide guidelines for

• developing the national surveys
• help harmonise the national surveys
• help share experiences of the countries
• best practice gathering

Detailed metadata to both surveys is available through the icon  in Tables and Database. It contains also links to national survey details (per country) or to footnotes for specific indicators.

 

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ICT impact assessment by linking data from different sources

 

A ‘network group’ of 13 European statistics offices have been working between 2006 and 2008 to develop new approaches to assessing the impact of ICT on business and the economy, to make recommendation on future measurement needs, and to establish new methods for producing indicators. The countries, which participated in the project, were the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Italy, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Denmark. United Kingdom had a coordinating role.

 

The study has developed firm level analysis at country level, using data-linking techniques and common analytical methods across 13 countries to link ICT use and business output surveys. It has used links to test and extend established knowledge on ICT investment, ICT use and firm growth and productivity.

 

The developed approach permits production of indicators which are completely comparable across countries, and auditable back to source data, but also allow to generate data, which can be used for analysis across countries and industries of differences in behaviour and performance associated with ICT use.

 

The final report of the project is published here to spread results from the project to wider audience. We expect it to have implications for analysis beyond ICT statistics.

 

 Final report of the project

 

 Summary report