ICT expenditure by Danish Enterprises

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Purpose and history
The purpose of the survey 'ICT expenditure' is to examine the extent of ICT expenditures in the private and public sector (state and municipalities). The survey contributes to the description of the information society.

The survey was conducted for the first time in autumn 2004.

Description of Contents
The survey examines ICT expenditure in enterprises and in the public sector (state and municipalities). Variables include hardware, pre-packaged and customised software, other ICT equipment (telecommunication equipment, audio and video equipment and other ICT equipment), ICT services and external ICT training.

Private sector
For enterprises in the private sector, the total ICT expenditure is estimated by industry and size groups. Moreover, expenditure in the different sub-groups of expenditure type is estimated, see above.

Public sector (state and municipalities)
Concerning the state, total ICT expenditure and expenditure of the different sub-groups expenditure type are estimated for ministerial departments, major agencies and universities. Regarding the municipalities, total ICT expenditure and expenditure by sub-group of expenditure type are estimated for all municipalities. ICT expenditures are not estimated for the municipalities for the reference period 2006 on account of increased risk of data inconsistency due to the Structural reform - a major reorganisation of municipalities that year.

Statistical Concepts
Units and population.

Private sector
The total population consists of 19,000 private enterprises from the business register with at least 10 full-time employees.
The majority of industries in the private sector and the financial sector are included in the population. The criterion of industries for being selected is that they must be a part of The Industrial Accounts Statistics and/or that the industries are presumed to have substantial ICT expenditure. The following sectors are not included: Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining.

Public sector (state and municipalities)
The survey includes the majority of the institutions in the state and all the municipalities. Ministerial departments, major agencies and universities are included in the coverage of the state. The total population is identical with the population of the survey Use of ICT in the public sector.

Variables.

ICT expenditure including

• Hardware
• Telecommunication equipment
• Audio and video equipment
• Other ICT equipment
• Pre-packaged software
• Customised software
• ICT services
• ICT training

Own account software:

• Man-years spent on development of own account software
• Development of software for internal use
• Development of software for eksternal use
• Other, i.e. maintenance, support, repairs etc.

Statistical measurements.

ICT expenditure: The sum of expenditure for different ICT expenditure types.

Regarding own account software the sum of development for internal and external use plus other are estimated in proportion to the total number of man-years spent on developing own account software.

Groups.

Private sector
Most tables and charts are broken down by industry and size group. For industries, either the 9 grouping of Statistics Denmark are applied. Enterprise sizes, measured by number of full-time employees, are grouped in the following way: 10-49, 50-99 and 100+ employees.

Municipalities
Grouped by population: 0-14,999 and 15,000+. Applies for the reference periods 2004 and 2005.

  Read more about the statistics on 'The population 1. January, the movements and the population in the municipalities and regions' in our Declarations of contents

Releases

Last updated:	16 March 2009
Scheduled releases:	21 April 2010 for the period 2008

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