Naslov
Individuals Using the Internet for Ordering Goods or Services Related to Selected Digital and Economic Development Level Indicators: Cluster Analysis of European Countries

Autori
Dumičić, Ksenija ; Lozanov-Crvenković, Zagorka ; Nikolić Đorić, Emilija ; Novkovska, Blagica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, znanstveni

Skup
62nd ISI World Statistics Congress (ISI2019)

Mjesto i datum
Kuala Lumpur, Malezija, 18.08.2019. - 23.08.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Globalisation ; Digital Skills ; Hierarchical clustering ; Statistical societies ; FENStatS

Sažetak
With a purpose to evaluate the possible role of statistical societies in digitalisation and globalisation era, selected “digital skills – related” and “globalisation” variables are put into the focus of the desk research, hoping that conclusions might be stimulating for statistical societies’ enhanced support to “digital skills – related” statistical education, knowledge, literacy and skills. Regarding this, possibilities of national statistical societies’ and Federation’s of National Statistical Societies (FENStatS, 2019) a more intensive standardized communication is suggested. The goal of the desk research was to explain one digital skills related variable, with three others. In this research, data for Percentage of individuals aged 16 to 74, who use the internet for ordering goods or services (Y2017IntOrderGoods), related to three development indicators, as independent variables, for 31 European countries for 2017, has been explored. Among several indicators influencing the main variable under study positively, Percentage of individuals aged 16-74, who have basic or above basic overall digital skills (X3_DigitalSkill), showed to have the strongest positive correlation with it. Descriptive summary statistics, linear trend modelling, correlation, regression and hierarchical cluster analysis were used. Analysis included 27 countries of the EU-28, plus four EU candidates, Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. The estimated linear trend for the EU- 28 countries shown that Percentage of individuals aged 16 to 74, who use the internet for ordering goods or services increased with the slope of 2.73 percentage points yearly. After discovering quite strong positive correlations between the dependent and each of independent variables, a two multiple linear regression models were fully developed, both including X3_DigitalSkill, as the independent variable. Both models show the average increase in the regression value to be statistically highly significant for each of the regressors considered. After hierarchical clustering, the Scandinavian countries with Germany and United Kingdom, all clustered within the separate cluster, as the absolute European leaders regarding the Digital Society indicator and Percentage of persons who order goods and services online, while the South- East European (SEE) countries, being similar, were clustered, as those at the end of the queue. Here recognized differently developed clusters of countries, with different percentages of individuals for YIntOrderGoods, and X3_DigitalSkill, variables taken as examples for digitalisation and globalisation, have also different communication habits of their NSAs. Activities of the NSAs should be studied with the goal to standardize their communication, to be better fitted into the global digitalised World, by communicating over the common platform, fulfilling their activities’ goals.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

Napomena
Invited Papers Session at IPS236: Digitisation,
Globalisation - Statistical Associations’ Role at
National, European and International Level. (Full
Paper available: Proceedings of the World
Statistics Congress – WSC, ISI2019, 18-23 August,
2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: https://s3-ap-
southeast-
1.amazonaws.com/isiwsc2019/abstract/files/jbLZ4aFH
01.pdf)

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