Survey on the information society. Companies

Identification

Name of the operation.

Survey on the information society. Companies

Operation Code.

223002 (Basque Statistics Plan)

Responsible body

Eustat

Periodicity

Annual

Type of operation.

Sampling survey

Methodology according to the origin of the data

Direct collection of primary data by sampling

Objectives

The generic objective of the ESI is to provide political leaders, economic and social agents, universities, private researchers and citizens in general with periodic information about the penetration of new information and communication technologies -ICT- among companies in the Basque Country.

This general aim may be divided into three specific objectives:

1. The degree of use and the outlook for the use of the main Information and Communication Technologies, including access available for the working personnel and IT safety measures in establishments.

2. The use of the Internet in different establishments, systems of access to the Internet, activities developed through the Internet and the main characteristics of company web sites: services offered.

3. The importance of electronic trade in the economic activity: characteristics and means by which electronic trade purchases and sales are carried out, client and supplier typology, geographic origin and factors considered as obstacles and stimuli to the development of e-trade.

Coverage

Population:

Group of business establishments of any size and any activity sector that carries out business in the area of the A.C. of Euskadi, except for the primary sector and domestic service.

Geographic area:

The three Provinces of the A.C. of Euskadi.

Time frame:

Date or period to which the data collected refer: natural year.

Definitions

IT equipment among companies and businesses

Internet user companies and businesses

Electronic trade

Sample design

The ESI -Companies- is a survey made up of a continuous probabilistic sample, i.e. a panel on the establishments in the A.C. of the Basque Country of all the activity sectors, with the exception of the primary sector and domestic service.

This panel is census for establishments with 100 or more employees and sampling, divided proportionally according to the size of each stratum, for establishments with under 100 employees until the sample is complete with around 7,200 establishments.

In order to substitute the lack of response, the panel is renewed annually, according to the criteria above, with those establishments newly incorporated into the Eustat Directory of Economic Activities.

Stratification is carried out by Province, size of the establishment, grouped into 6 modes, and by activity branch, classified according to the normalised sectorization A38, which corresponds to groups of activities in the National Classification of Economic Activities CNAE 2009.

Information is collected through the Internet, by post, personal interview or telephone contact.

Sampling error calculations

Questionnaires

Survey on the Information Society-ESI-Companies-

Dissemination

• Printed publication: Information Society -Euskadi
• Periodicity: Annual
• Internet: www.eustat.eus
• Press releases
• Data bank