Information
Digital economy and society in the EU is a digital publication released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
For further information see:
The dedicated section on digital economy and society on the Eurostat website.
Articles on the digital economy and society in Statistics Explained.
Information on data
Date of data extraction/update: 01 June 2017 for text and all data visualisations.
ICT usage data are organised in Eurostat's online database according to the year in which the survey was conducted.
For households/people, most countries collected data in the 2nd quarter of the survey year. In general, data refer to the 1st quarter of the survey year. Data on e-commerce and internet security refer to the 12 months prior to the survey.
For businesses, most data refer to the situation during the survey period. Data on ICT specialists, ICT functions and e-commerce refer to the year preceding the survey year.
In the visualisations, data marked as 'not available' can be missing, unreliable or confidential. For more information, please see the source dataset available below each visualisation.
Contact
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Identifiers of the digital publication:
Catalogue number: KS-01-17-543-EN-Q
ISBN 978-92-79-69326-7
Doi: 10.2785/247196
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