NINE out of 10 business establishments in the “information economy” in the country use computers, and eight in 10 use the Internet in their business operations, preliminary results of a government survey on information and communication technology show.
However, less than half of the employees (43 percent) routinely use computers and even fewer—only three in 10—use the Internet at work, according to the survey of 10,000 establishments conducted last year by the National Statistics Office.
The survey also shows less than half of business establishments (45.6 percent) reported a Web presence and only a third engaged in E-commerce transactions.
According to the NSO, information economy consists of businesses that use ICT intensively to collect, store, process and transmit information, supported by supply of ICT products from an ICT-producing sector and through trade. It consists of the Information and Communication Technology and the Content and Media sectors.
The survey shows that Local Area Network (LAN) was the most common network used other than the Internet in 2008 by establishments, posting 55.2 percent, followed by the Intranet 26.4 percent and Wide Area Network (WAN) 17.6 percent. Least used was the Extranet at 6.6 percent.
E-commerce transactions include receiving orders, placing orders, or both receiving and placing order over computer network channels. Establishments that both placed and received order of products and services through network channels accounted for 15.8 percent. More establishments, however, placed orders (12.5 percent) than received orders (4.1 percent) through network channels, said the NSO poll.
Read NSO’s report on its survey findings.