Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 413 (Companies Engaged in Online Activities)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels DG Communication COMM A1 ´Strategy, Corporate Communication Actions and Eurobarometer´ Unit

Study number / PID

ZA6284, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.12353 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Companies’ attitudes towards online activities.Topics: company sells or purchases online and / or uses Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) type transactions; online selling of products or services using: own website or apps, small commercial platform, large commercial platform, EDI type transactions; percentage of the company´s online sales in 2014 coming from: country where company is located, other EU countries, countries outside the EU; countries in which online selling was available in 2014; percentage of the company´s non-online sales in 2014 coming from: country where company is located, other EU countries, countries outside the EU; considerations or attempts to sell online in other EU countries; companies already practicing online selling were asked: significance of each of the following difficulties regarding online selling to other EU countries: high delivery costs, expensiveness of guarantees and returns, ignorance of the applicable rules, insufficient security of payments from other countries, copyright reasons, complicated or costly foreign taxation, necessity to adapt product labeling, lack of language skills, restriction or interdiction by suppliers to sell abroad, interdiction by suppliers to use third platform for selling, request of suppliers to sell abroad at different prices, data protection issues, insufficient interoperability, specificity of products, slow internet connection of company or of customers, costs from resolving complaints and disputes cross-border; companies not yet practicing online selling were asked: significance of each of the following difficulties regarding online selling: lack of necessary digital skills, ignorance of the applicable rules, high delivery costs, expensiveness of guarantees and returns, restriction or interdiction by suppliers to sell online, higher prices imposed by suppliers for products sold online, interdiction by suppliers to use third platform for selling, risk of reduction in price for products sold...
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Methodology

Data collection period

19/01/2015 - 11/02/2015

Country

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, United Kingdom

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Stratified

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

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