Ebusiness in Maltese Enterprises

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E-business in Maltese Enterprises

• Alfred Camilleri
• Director-General

National Statistics Office Lascaris Valletta CMR
02 Tel [phone] Fax [phone] /
25997103 E-mail nso_at_gov.mt www.nso.gov.mt
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Scope of exercise

• Different NACE divisions covered
• Comprehensive census among enterprises with 10
  and more full-time equivalent employees
• Sample among enterprises with less than 10
  full-time equivalent employees
• Sample of 1,474 enterprises
• Response rate of 70 per cent.

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Metadata

• Definition
• Micro 1-9 FTE employees
• Small 10-49 FTE employees
• Medium 50-248 FTE employees
• Large 250 and over FTE employees
• Reference period
• All information as at 2005 except for
• purchases data refer to 2004
• turnover data refer to 2004
• Questionnaires
• One addressed to enterprises
• One addressed to individuals and households

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Computer usage
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Internet usage
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Broadband access
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Enterprises with
website/homepage

• 87.7 per cent of establishments in the hotel and
  restaurant industry have their own homepage
• 46.5 per cent of manufacturing enterprises have
  their own homepage.

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Enterprises purchasing online (1)

• 46.8 per cent of small, medium and large
  enterprises order products/services via Internet
• 14.4 per cent of small, medium and large
  enterprises order more than 25 per cent of their
  total purchases.

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Enterprises purchasing online (2)

• 24.5 per cent of small, medium and large
  enterprises paid online for products/services
  ordered
• 13.2 per cent made use of specialised Internet
  market places.

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Enterprises selling online

• 14.3 per cent of small, medium and large
  enterprises received orders for their products
  through the Internet
• 2.6 per cent of total turnover of small, medium
  and large enterprises was generated through
  e-sales.

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Sectoral analysis of online sales ()
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Sectoral online sales by destination ()
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Perceived benefits of e-business
(SML)
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Perceived barriers to e-business (SML)
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ICT usage by individuals households

• Aims to investigate level and type of computer
  usage by individuals and their households
• A sample of 1,500 individuals aged between 15 and
  74 years
• Section of questionnaire addressed to
  individuals households
• Response rate of 82 per cent.

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Computer availability in households

• 48.4 per cent have a desktop computer
• 8.6 per cent have a portable computer (laptop)
• 0.9 per cent have a handheld computer.
• Categories not mutually exclusive.

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Internet connectivity in households

• 26.8 per cent have a broadband connection.

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E-purchases
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Analysis by product of orders/payments through
Internet ()
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Reasons behind non-Internet orders/sales
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