E-Stats

The e-commerce measures report the value of goods and services sold online whether over open networks such as the Internet, or over proprietary networks running systems such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). E-commerce data were collected in four separate Census Bureau surveys. These surveys used different measures of economic activity such as shipments for manufacturing, sales for wholesale and retail trade, and revenues for service industries. Consequently, measures of total economic and e-commerce activity vary by economic sector, are conceptually and definitionally different, and therefore, are not additive.

电子商务度量报告涵盖了通过开放网络如互联网，或通过运行如电子数据交换（EDI）等系统的专有网络所售商品的值和服务。电子商务数据是通过四个独立的统计局调查收集的。这些调查采用了不同的经济活动度量方法，如制造业的发货量、批发和零售贸易的销售量，以及服务行业的收入。因此，总经济活动和电子商务活动的度量因经济部门而异，在概念和定义上存在差异，因此不具有可加性。