The Statistical Service announces the results of the annual survey ‘Information and Communication Technologies Usage and
E-Commerce in Enterprises
2013’.
The survey covered 1.360 enterprises with ten or more employees in specific categories of economic activity. The data was collected with personal interviews and it covered all the government controlled areas of the Republic of Cyprus. Τhe reference period was January 2013.
The main results of the survey are the following:
a) A significant
increase is observed in mobile broadband connection in 2013, that reaches 56,2%
compared to 49,0% in 2012.
b)
The percentage of the enterprises that provide their
employees with portable devices that
allow a mobile connection to the Internet for business use, increases to 57,9%
in 2013 compared to 49,2% in 2012.
c) The maximum
contracted download speed of the Internet ranges between 2Mbit/s and 10Mbit/s
for the vast majority of the enterprises that use the Internet (75,6%) based on
the contracts of the Internet Service Providers. 17,8% of the enterprises using
the Internet have maximum contracted download speed between 10Mbit/s and
30Mbit/s, a percentage that increased significantly compared to 2012 (7,6%).
d)
41,0% of the enterprises are using social media (e.g.
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc). Large enterprises (250+ employees) are using
social media more than medium or small enterprises since the percentage for
large enterprises reaches 72,8%. The main reason that enterprises use social
media is the development of the enterprise image or market products (88,0% of
the enterprises using social media).
e)
The percentage of the enterprises that have a website increase
by 7,4% compared to 2012, reaching 70,8% in 2013. 95,0% of them offer access to
product catalogues and price lists.
f)
34,5% of the enterprises use the Electronic Procurement Systems
(e-Procurement) of the Treasury.
g)
With regard to e-Commerce, the percentage of enterprises that accepted orders
remains stable at
8,4%
while the percentage of enterprises that placed
orders decreases to 13,2% in 2013 compared to 18,6% in 2012 (percentage on
enterprises using computers).
The
results of the survey are available on the website of the Statistical Service (http://www.cystat.gov.cy)
under the Statistical Theme ‘Science and Technology / Information Society’.
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9/12/2013
