Year 2017, Issue 137

Date published

19.12.2017

Table of content

  • Margarita Shopova
    STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN BULGARIA
    JEL: Ñ10, Ñ22, Ñ82, Î30.
    Keywords: information society, information and communication technologies, measuring the information society, statistical methods for analyzing the information society.
    Summary: The management and development of the information society are related to the need for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the established conditions for distribution and use of ICT in certain areas of public life. This necessitates the application of a statistical approach to collecting, processing and analyzing informa ... ... CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Chapter One. INFORMATION SOCIETY AS AN OBJECT OF STATISTICAL RESEARCH 1.1. Nature and characteristics of information society 1.2. Indicators for characterizing information society 1.3. Information provision of the statistical survey on information society Chapter Two. METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF A STATISTICAL RESEARCH ON INFORMATION SOCIETY IN EU 2.1. Measuring the information society in the EU – a retrospective review 2.2. Measuring the distribution and use of ICT in digitally linked Europe 2.3. Research methodology of the study on the use of ICT and e-commerce in enterprises 2.4. Research methodology of the study on the use of ICT by households and individuals 2.5. Methodological characteristics of the statistical survey in Bulgaria Chapter Three. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ASPECTS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY IN BULGARIA 3.1. General characteristics of information society in Bulgaria in the context of European Information Space 3.2. Use of the Internet in enterprises 3.3. Access of households to the Internet 3.4. Use of the Internet by people aged between 16 and 74 years CONCLUSION REFERENCES APPENDICES ABSTRACT The management and development of the information society are related to the need for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the established conditions for distribution and use of ICT in certain areas of public life. This necessitates the application of a statistical approach to collecting, processing and analyzing information. The subject of research in this paper is the information society. The aim is to clarify key aspects of the statistical survey on information society and, by using statistical methods, analyze the trends and regularities in its state and dynamics in Bulgaria. The nature of the information society as a subject of the statistical study has been clarified; the main sources of data and statistical indicators for measurement, applied in the practice of international organizations, have been presented. The methodological aspects of a statistical survey on the use of information and communication technologies, which has been conducted in the European Union, have been presented and their peculiarities in Bulgaria have also been given. An economic and statistical analysis of the dynamics and structure of indicators, characterizing the information society in Bulgaria, has been carried out and the emerging trends have been modelled.