E-commerce and ICT Activity, 2013

28 Nov 2014 02:32 PM

Key Points

• E-commerce sales represented 20% of business turnover in 2013, up from 18% in 2012, and an increase of 6 percentage points from the 2008 estimate of 14%.
• Sales by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) made up almost two-thirds (65%) of the value of total e-commerce sales in 2013, with the remainder (35%) being website sales.
• While 22% of businesses generated e-commerce sales, 51% of businesses made e-commerce purchases in 2013.
• 95% of businesses had broadband Internet and 80% had a website in 2013.
• In 2013, 42% of businesses used social networks and 24% purchased cloud computing services.

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