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 Proportion of persons aged between 16 and 74 years old using e-commerce for private purposes (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of persons aged between 16 and 74 years old using e-commerce for private purposes (%) by E-commerce last usage; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Survey on ICT usage in private households
First available period 2004
Last available period 2015
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • E-commerce last usage
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • ELECTRONIC COMMERCE:  Business process conducted via Internet Protocol-based networks or via other computer-mediated networks. The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and the ultimate delivery of the good or service may be conducted on or off-line. Orders received via telephone, facsimile, or manually typed e-mails are not counted as electronic commerce.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • E-COMMERCE:  Orders received or placed on a webpage through an extranet or other application using the internet as a platform, such as EDI(by internet), Minitel (by internet) or another network application, irrespective of the device providing the access (e.g. by mobile phone, television, etc.).Payment and final delivery of the goods or services may be made on-line or off-line. In addition to all the internet transactions mentioned above, it also includes orders received or placed by EDI or any other on-line application using automated transactions (e.g. Minitel, interactive phone systems). Orders received or placed by fax or phone are not included.
Formule (Persons aged between 16 and 74 years old using e-commerce for private purposes/ Resident population aged between 16 and 74 years old)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 17/11/2015


information presented in 4/11/2025