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• Information Society Statistics in Romania
• Virginia BALEA - Romanian National Institute of
  Statistics
• vbalea_at_insse.ro
• Geneva 2003

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• General framework
• the European Council Decision - Lisbon March 2000
  - the European economy will become the most
  competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy
• eEurope 2002, 2005 Action Plan
• eEurope Action Plan - plan assumed by the
  candidate countries

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• Institutional organisation of the Romanian IS
  statistics
• Romanian National Institute of Statistics
• General Direction of Structural Business
  Statistics, Register and Sampling for the
  Enterprise Surveys
• Direction of Structural Business Statistics
• Information Society statistics team

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• RNISs actions before 2003
• 1999 - the survey Stage of the Information
  Society in Romania
• reference year - 1998
• activities covered by survey - industry,
  constructions, trade, services, credit
  institutions, insurance services, public
  administration
• first publication Stage of the IS in Romania in
  1998

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• 2000, 2001 not dedicated survey but few
  indicators were included in the surveys on
  enterprises
• 2002
• surveys on ICT usage by the enterprise
• reference year - 2001
• activities covered by survey - industry,
  constructions, trade, services, credit
  institutions, insurance services
• survey on Internet Service Providers
• survey on ICT usage by the public administration
• publication Information Society in Romania in
  2001

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• the Action Plan eEurope, object eGovernment -
  submission of data to statistical offices
• start to develop the electronic system for data
  collection
• project developed by the Romanian Ministry for
  Communication and Information Technology and RNIS

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• Activities done by the RNIS in 2003
• carried out the project started at the end of
  2002 - the electronic system for data collection
• electronic questionnaire - used by the public
  administration for IS survey - compulsory
• surveys on ICT usage by the enterprise
• reference year - 2002
• activities covered by survey - industry,
  constructions, trade, services, credit
  institutions, insurance services
• survey on Internet Service Providers
• new survey - ICT usage by tertiary education

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• Legal framework for using the electronic system
• Government Ordinance no.19 / January 2003,
  approved by the Law no.202/May 2003, regarding
  the obligation of the public institutions to use
  the electronic system for data collection
• Government Decision no.542/May 2003 for
  methodological aspects regarding the
  implementation of the electronic system
• the electronic system has build to be used next
  years for other surveys and other categories of
  respondents

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• Indicators collected by the survey
• for enterprise
• number of PCs, number of servers, of which
  secured servers, number of PC with Internet
  connection, number of PC with Internet connection
  by type of connection, number of specialised
  person on ICT activities, investments and
  expenditure for IT products and services,
  investments and expenditure for communication
  products and services, incomes and expenditures
  via Internet

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• Indicators collected by the survey
• for public administration
• number of PCs, number of servers, of which
  secured servers, number of PC with Internet
  connection, number of PC with Internet connection
  by type of connection, number of specialised
  person on ICT activities, investments and
  expenditure for IT products and services,
  investments and expenditure for communication
  products and services, public services available
  online and level of accessibility of the basic
  public services

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• Some results from the latest publication
• the growth rate of the number of ICT skilled
  persons in 2001 comparative with 1998
• the number of PCs passed double of 1998 in 2001
• the number of PCs connected to the Internet
  increased four times in 2001

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• eEurope indicators for 2001
• percentage of teleworkers 1
• percentage of the enterprises that sell via
  Internet 1
• percentage of the enterprises that buy via
  Internet 1
• percentage of the households having Internet
  connection 3

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• RNSIs immediate objectives
• to develop and harmonise all surveys on IS with
  the Eurostat and OECD recommendations
• to implement the quality criteria for statistical
  data
• relevance
• accuracy
• timeliness
• accessibility and clarity
• comparability
• coherence
• completeness