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 Proportion of persons aged between 16 and 74 years old using e-commerce for private purposes in the first 3 months of the year or in the previous year (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of persons aged between 16 and 74 years old using e-commerce for private purposes in the first 3 months of the year or in the previous year (%) by Type of products delivered or updated online; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Survey on ICT usage in private households
First available period 2005
Last available period 2019
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Type of products delivered or updated online
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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 28/11/2019


information presented in 24/10/2025