International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

International Telecommunications Union (ITU): World Telecommunication Indicators Database (12^th edition 2008)

The World Telecommunication Indicators Database is one of the various data sources that have been used in IFs system for analyzing the size of the Information Communications Technology (ICT) sector in economies. The World Telecommunication Indicators Database, launched by ITU, contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-2007 for around 80 sets of telecommunication statistics and is categorized into telephone network size and dimension, mobile services, quality of service, traffic, staff, tariffs, revenue and investment. Selected demographic, macroeconomic, broadcasting and information technology statistics are also included. The database encompasses data for over 200 economies.  It can be purchased either in CD-ROM or in printed version. The ITU database is updated and revised approximately every three months. Detailed information about World Telecommunication Indicators is available at http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/world/world.html

There is a total of 105 series with that begin with ICT; the majority of the series come from ITU (104), and World Bank (1). The series were updated in the first quarter of 2015 or earlier and need updating. I have attached an ITU.xlsx file.

Variable	Last IFs Update
ICTBroadbandSubscribersITU	2015/01/28
ICTComputers	2008/12/24
ICTComputersper100	2010/11/23
ICTCYBGlobalCybSecIndexITU	2015/02/06
ICTCYBGlobalCybSecSubIndexCapacityBuildingITU	2015/02/06
ICTCYBGlobalCybSecSubIndexCooperationITU	2015/02/06
ICTCYBGlobalCybSecSubIndexLegalITU	2015/02/06
ICTCYBGlobalCybSecSubIndexOrganizationalITU	2015/02/06
ICTCYBGlobalCybSecSubIndexTechnicalITU	2015/02/06
ICTCYBICTDevelopmentSubIndexAccessITU	2015/02/12
ICTCYBICTDevelopmentSubIndexSkillsITU	2015/02/12
ICTCYBICTDevelopmentSubIndexUseITU	2015/02/12
ICTDigitalAccessIndex	2005/01
ICTHomeSatelliteAntennas	2015/01/28
ICTInternetCableModemSubscribers	2015/01/28
ICTInternetDialUpSubscribers	2015/01/28
ICTInternetDSLSubscribers	2015/01/28
ICTInternetFixedSubscribers	2015/01/28
ICTInternetFixedSubscribersPer100	2015/01/28
ICTInternetHostsITU	2005/01
ICTInternetISDNChannels	2015/01/28
ICTInternetISDNSubscribers	2005/01
ICTInternetISDNSubscribersTotal	2015/01/28
ICTInternetUsersITU	2008/12/17
ICTInternetUsersITUper100	2010/10/13
ICTIntlBandwidth	2015/04/14
ICTIntlBandwidthPerCap	2015/04/14
ICTMobileCommStaff	2015/01/28
ICTPersonalComputers	2005/01
ICTPersonalComputersinEducation	2005/01
ICTPublicPayphones	2015/01/28
ICTPublicPayphonesper1000	2015/01/28
ICTPublicSwitchingExchCapacity	2015/01/28
ICTRadioEquippedHouseholds	2008/12/24
ICTRadioHousehold%	2015/01/28
ICTRadios	2008/12/24
ICTTelecomEquipExports	2008/12/31
ICTTelecomEquipImports	2008/12/31
ICTTelecomFemaleStaff	2015/01/28
ICTTelecomFTStaff	2015/01/28
ICTTelecomInvest	2015/01/28
ICTTelecomRevTotal	2015/01/28
ICTTelecomRevTotal%GDP	2015/02/08
ICTTelephoneAutomaticMainLines%	2008/12/02
ICTTelephoneBusConnectFee	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneBusMonthlyCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCallsLocal	2008/12/22
ICTTelephoneCallsMinutesLocal	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCallsMinutesNatLongDistance	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCallsNatLongDistance	2008/12/22
ICTTelephoneCellConnectFee	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCellHousehold%	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCellMonthlyCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCellOffPeakCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCellPeakCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribers	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribersDigital	2009/01/03
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribersPre&PostPaid	2009/01/03
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribersPrePaid	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneCircuits	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneFaults	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneFaultsClearedNextDay%	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneHousehold%	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneIntCallsIn	2009/01/07
ICTTelephoneIntCallsOut	2008/12/16
ICTTelephoneIntMinIn	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneIntMinOut	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneInvest	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneLinesInOperation	2009/04/10
ICTTelephoneLinesInOperationITU	2010/08/25
ICTTelephoneLinesMajorCityTotal	2009/01/06
ICTTelephoneLinesPer1000	2011/08/08
ICTTelephoneLinesPer100New	2012/02/01
ICTTelephoneLinesPer100old	2010/10/13
ICTTelephoneLinesUrban%	2008/12/04
ICTTelephoneLinesWaitingList	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneLocalOffPeakCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneLocalPeakCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneMainlinesper1000	2009/01/25
ICTTelephoneMobileCov%	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneMobileInvest	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneNatTrafficCalls	2009/01/07
ICTTelephoneNatTrafficMin	2009/01/07
ICTTelephonePercentDigital	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneResConnectFee	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneResLines%	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneResMonthlyCost	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneRevFixed	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneRevMobile	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneSubscribersPer100	2009/01/02
ICTTelephoneTrafficMinutesIntlIncoming	2015/02/03
ICTTelephoneTrafficMinutesIntlOutgoing	2015/02/03
ICTTelevisionCable	2009/01/02
ICTTelevisionEquippedHouseholds	2008/12/31
ICTTelevisionHousehold%	2015/01/28
ICTTelevisionSets	2008/12/31
ICTTelevisionSetsper1000	2009/01/06
SIGIRestrictedCivilLibertiesSubIndex	2013/10/07
ICTBroadbandMobileSubsPer100	2015/02/03
ICTBroadbandSubscribersPer100ITU	2015/01/28
ICTComputerHousehold%	2015/01/28
ICTCYBICTDevelopmentIndexITU	2015/05/10
ICTInternetHousehold%	2015/04/14
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribersPer100	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneLinesPer100	2014/06/30

 June 2016 Updates

The following series are used in the pre-processor. I managed to get data for 3 series which was the assigned task. The dates listed are the dates of the last update. The site has more data which seems to require purchasing in order to conduct a batch pull.

Data source: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx

A data set with a similar extended source definition to ICTCYBICTDevelopmentSubIndexUseITU (percentage of internet users) had highly divergent data points and I left it out in the importation.

 

ICTBroadbandMobileSubsPer100	2015/02/03
ICTBroadbandSubscribersPer100ITU	2015/01/28
ICTComputerHousehold%	2015/01/28
ICTCYBICTDevelopmentIndexITU	2015/05/10
ICTInternetHousehold%	2015/04/14
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribersPer100	2015/01/28
ICTTelephoneLinesPer100	2014/06/30

 

The following Series were updated by an additional year up to 2014

ICTTelephoneLinesPer100 
ICTTelephoneCellSubscribersPer100 
ICTBroadbandSubscribersPer100ITU 

Operations:

Step 1 : searching for data from ITU, the three series were listed as new at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx

Step 2: Simple statistical actions were conducted including V-Look up (optional) for the country concordance. No updates were made to the country concordance.

Step 3: Excel operation to add an additional year(2014) through the addition of new and adjusted data from 2000-2014 for all three series.

Issues to note

Kosovo and Korea, Democratic Republic are not covered in the ICTBroadbandSubscribersPer100ITU series. 

Kosovo is not covered in the other two series.

Inconsistency: there have been variations in the appearance of zeros and nulls for SeriesICTBroadbandSubscribersPer100ITU for previous updates. The current update removes the zeros from 2000-2014 which had appeared in the previous update. this is in accordance with the new dataset which has nulls.