In a survey conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO), these were ICT sectors of telecommunications, computer and related services, and motion picture, radio and TV with 100 percent usage; ICT wholesale and retail trade, 96.6 percent; ICT education, 93.7 percent; and ICT manufacturing, 88.6 percent.
The proportion of ICT users in non-ICT industries in these same sectors was also high, from nearly 80 percent to about 90 percent.
There were also non ICT sectors that exhibited high usage of ICT resources: financial intermediation, 96.6 percent; construction, 94.8 percent; electricity, gas and water, 93.2 percent; and health and social work, 92 percent.
NSO says the proportion of ICT users was lowest in the primary sectors: agriculture, fishing, and mining and quarrying.
The percentage ICT users is measured as the proportion of the total number of establishments using any or all types of ICT resources to the total number of responding establishments.
The figures give a rough indication of ICT diffusion in businesses and industries. In the survey, ICT resources is defined to include machines and knowledge.
Users of ICT resources in many sectors, whether with ICT or non-ICT industries, reported 100 percent usage of computers, except in agriculture, fishing, and transport, storage and communications.
These sectors made intense use of network channels/ telecommunication equipment than computers.
Sectors with ICT industries, except wholesale and retail trade, accounted for big shares of the total number of PCs in use.
ICT education reported the most number of computers owning 35 percent of all computers.
This was followed by ICT manufacturing, contributing 10.4 percent; telecom-munications, 8.5 percent; and computer and related services, 3.6 percent.
Among sectors with non-ICT industries, the most number of PCs in use were in financial intermediation, accounting for 14.5 percent; manufacturing, 10.6 percent; real estate, renting and other business activities,, 3.1 percent; and wholesale and retail trade and repair services, 3.1 percent.
ICT industries had higher average number of PCs per user-establishment compared to non-ICT industries of the same sector, except for the wholesale and retail trade.
Among sectors with ICT industries, telecommunications had the highest number at 170 PCs per establishment followed by computer and related services at 108. ICT education had an average of 102 PCs per school.
Establishments in financial intermediation, a non-ICT sector, had the highest average number of PCs at 435 each.
This figure is more than twice the highest average number of PCs used in ICT sector of telecommunications.
Electricity, gas and water was also a heavy user of ICT resources with 106 PCs per establishment.
The percentage of network channel users is the proportion of the number of users of network channels to the number of ICT users.
NSO statistics showed that all sectors with ICT industries reported high rates of usage of network channels, ranging from over 70 percent to 100 percent.
Telecommunications and motion picture, radio and TV reported 100 percent usage, while ICT wholesale and retail trade and computer and related services reported over 90 percent usage of network channels.
For non-ICT sectors of education; transport, storage and communication; construction, agriculture, fishing, and mining and quarrying, the usage of network channels was about 70 percent and lower.
The Internet access rate of ICT users is measured as the proportion of number of internet users to the total number of PC users.
Internet users are those establishments that have access to internet while PC users are those establishments that reported to be using PCs. PCs are the main equipment used to access the internet.
The survey data showed that ICT industries, except those in manufacturing, had relatively higher internet access rates compared to non-ICT industries of the same sector.
Internet access rate was highest in the ICT sector of motion picture, radio and TV at 100 percent.
This was followed by computer and related services at 95 percent.
Internet access rate of wholesale and retail trade was 88 percent, while those of ICT manufacturing , telecommunications and ICT education were slightly higher than 70 percent.
Only three (non-ICT sectors had high internet access rates, as follows: hotels and restaurants, nearly 88 percent; other personal, community and social services, 81 percent; and financial intermediation, 76 percent.
The rest of the non-ICT sectors had internet access rates ranging from 22 percent to 72.4 percent.
