Dataset on Digital Literacy and Remote Work amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Russia and Several Countries Across the World

To create a dataset, data from a sociological survey (original survey) conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) and Social Business Group LLC (SBG) [2] were collected and combined into a single Microsoft Excel table on May 15, 2020, and data from official corporate and household statistics in Russia and a number of countries around the world, in particular, the Republic of Kereya, Japan, Great Britain, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Estonia, France, the United States, the Czech Republic and Italy on the digital economy in 2020 ., formed before the start of the pandemic (at the end of 2019). This made it possible to form a database of empirical data to study the prospects and the actual level of digitalization of the labor market under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis in 2020.