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. ITU claims that the 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

IFS Update

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

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.

There is a total of 105 series with that begging 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.

A data set with a similar extended source definition to ICTCYBICTDevelopmentSubIndexUseITU 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:

The series were listed as new at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx

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

Prepared by Joel Maweni.