Every year, INSEE conducts a survey of tens of thousands of households to measure household equipment, usage and frequency of use, and the use of government and e-commerce services.
This survey, coordinated by Eurostat, is part of the regulation n°808/2004 of 21 April 2004 concerning the implementation of the eEurope 2005 ICT Action Plan. Each Member State has to provide Eurostat with about 130 indicators. The questionnaire is developed by Eurostat, the statistical offices and DG Connect.
The objective of the survey is to collect indicators describing household equipment and usage in the area of new technologies (computers, Internet, mobile telephony). As far as equipment is concerned, the aim is to measure computer equipment and Internet access. For the uses, it is a question of measuring the frequency, the places and the types of uses (on-line administration and electronic commerce) but also the individual skills in computing and Internet.
In addition to a recurring core of questions (equipment, uses), the survey explores a particular topic each year:
- 2009, the online purchase of goods via the Internet.
- 2010, security on the Internet.
- 2011, the computer and internet skills of individuals
- 2012, mobile internet usage.
- 2013, the use of administrative sites.
- 2014, the use of file sharing or storage sites (cloud).
- 2015, internet security
- 2016, confidentiality and privacy
- 2017, the use of e-commerce
Eurostat releases the first weighted results in November of each year. The data are published by Eurostat in the form of tables aggregating the results of the member countries. The data are used by DG Connect in the framework of the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI).
Publication of 34 data sets for the period 2009-2017
The Institute has just updated the following datasets covering the period 2009-2017.Household equipment- Equipment rate by age
- Equipment rate by gender
- Equipment rate by gender and age
- Equipment rate by degree
- Equipment rate by degree and age
- Equipment rate by socio-professional category
- Equipment rate by urban area size
- Equipment rate by size of urban unit
- Frequency and rate of use by age
- Frequency and rate of use by gender
- Frequency and rate of use by gender and age
- Frequency and rate of use by degree
- Frequency and rate of use by degree and age
- Frequency and rate of use by socio-professional category
- Frequency and rate of use by size of urban area
- Frequency and rate of use by size of urban unit
- Rate of use of administrative sites by age (%)
- Use of administrative sites by gender (%)
- Use of administrative sites by gender and age (%)
- Rate of use of administrative sites by degree (%)
- Rate of use of administrative sites by degree and age (%)
- Rate of use of administrative sites by socio-professional category (in %)
- Rate of use of administrative sites by size of urban area (%)
- Rate of use of administrative sites by size of urban unit (%)
- Purchase rates and practices on the Internet by age
- Purchase rates and practices on the Internet by gender
- Purchase rates and practices on the Internet by gender and age
- Purchase rate and internet practices by degree
- Purchase rate and practices on the Internet according to degree and age
- Rate of purchase and practices on the Internet by socio-professional category
- Purchasing rates and practices on the Internet according to the size of the urban area
- Purchasing rates and practices on the Internet according to the size of the urban unit
A new survey in 2019
In 2019, INSEE will carry out, as it does every year, a household survey to measure household equipment, usage and frequency of use, and the use of government and e-commerce services.In 2019, the survey is conducted
- by telephone with a sample of over 4,000 households.
- by mail and by internet to a sample of nearly 23,000 households.
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