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Methodology - Investment in ICT

 

Investments into ICT equipment and software

Investments into ICT equipment and software in this statistic shall mean the gross fixed capital formation (P.51), which includes acquisitions less disposals of fixed assets (P.511) and costs of ownership transfer on non-produced assets (P.512) classified to the groups of the Classification of Products by Activity (CZ-CPA) as follows:

  •  ICT equipment
  • 26.2 Computers and peripheral equipment;
  • 26.3 Communication equipment;
  • 26.4 Consumer electronics.
  •  Software
  • 58.2 Software publishing services;
  • 62.0 Computer programming, consultancy and related services;
  • 63.1 Data processing, hosting and related services; web portals.

Investments into computer and telecommunication equipment are a part of an item of ‘Non-financial assets as ICT equipment’ (AN.1132). “Computer software and databases” (AN.1173) involves two sub-items as follows: ‘Computer software’ (AN.11731) and ‘Databases’ (AN.11732).

Data come from the annual national accounts statistics. Data for 2022 are preliminary.

 

Household consumption expenditure on ICT equipment and services

This statistic gives data on the final consumption of households in the national concept, which includes expenditure of residents in the Czech Republic and abroad spent on ICT products and services dedicated to direct satisfaction of personal needs and wishes of individuals.

The Czech version of the international standard of the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (CZ-COICOP) was applied to define the ICT area by item as follows:

 

ICT equipment

  •      Telephone and telefax equipment (CZ-COICOP 08.2)
  •      Computers and other ICT equipment
  • Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and picture (CZ-COICOP 09.1.1);
  • Photographic and cinematographic equipment and optical instruments (CZ-COICOP 09.1.2);
  • Information processing equipment (CZ-COICOP 09.1.3);
  • Recording media (CZ-COICOP 09.1.4);
  • Repair of audio-visual, photographic and information processing equipment (CZ-COICOP 09.1.5).

 

  •    ICT services
  • Wired telephone services (CZ-COICOP 08.3.0.1);
  • Wireless telephone services (CZ-COICOP 08.3.0.2);
  • Internet access provision services (CZ-COICOP 08.3.0.3);
  • Bundled telecommunication services (CZ-COICOP 08.3.0.4).

Data come from the annual national accounts statistics. Data for 2022 are preliminary.