Flash Eurobarometer 116 (Special Target: E-Commerce)

Attitudes of companies towards e-commerce.<br>Topics: internet connection of the company; availability of a company website; possibility to make orders via the company’s website; sales through electronic market places; percentage of the total sales coming from internet sales; purchase of supplies via the internet; purchase of supplies via electronic market places; percentage of total supplies currently purchased on the internet; experienced problems with regard to electronic sales and purchases in the last six months: viruses, illegal access, denial of service, defacement of web server, ID theft, occupation of domain name; measures taken to protect company against security problems: firewall, virus scanner, intrusion detection, SSL server site.

Demography: information about the company: number of employees in the own country, company size; position of respondent at the company; company sector; turnover of the company in the own country.

Additionally coded was: country; SIC-Code; NACE-Code; weighting factor.