Digital Economy and Food security in Indonesia

This data article describes a balanced, province-year panel dataset developed to examine the relationship between the digital economy and food security in Indonesia. This dataset covers 34 Indonesian provinces from 2022 to 2025 and contains 136 observations. This dataset integrates indicators of provincial digital readiness, regional food market integration, food subsector performance, food price volatility or stability, food security, and selected control variables. Data were collected from official Indonesian statistical and price information sources, including the Indonesian Digital Society Index, provincial economic statistics, strategic food price records, and food security indicators. This dataset includes raw variables, transformed indices, operational definitions, descriptive statistics, correlation results, path coefficients, mediation results, and model comparison statistics. This dataset can be reused to replicate structural equation modeling, mediation analysis, panel regression, spatial comparison, and regional policy analysis. It is particularly useful for researchers interested in food system resilience, digital transformation, market connectivity, price disparities, and subnational development in the context of island markets or emerging economies. By documenting the construction of each variable and the direction of each index, this dataset enhances the transparency, reproducibility, and reuse of empirical evidence on the digital economy-food security relationship in Indonesia. Keywords: Digital economy; Food security; Market integration; Price stability; Provincial panel; Indonesia; Structural equation modeling