Welcome to the Digital Toolkit.

You might be asking yourself just what a digital toolkit is or at least what purpose it could possibly serve. Before explaining, we'd like to take this opportunity to tell you first how it all came to be. The digital toolkit thanks its origins to the STILE project. (Please check our link to read up on just what we've been up to.) The STILE project aims to provide innovative methodologies and content for the statistical monitoring of the European labor market in the eEconomy. This includes the fine-tuning of statistics to match the eEconomy and the monitoring of ICT-related work patterns. Part of the problem in measuring ICT is that most of us don't really know just what it is we're supposed to measure. Just what is ICT and how does one arrive at measurable indicators? For example, is working at home the same as telework? In order to come to reliable and comparable statistics regarding ICT and its impact on the European labor market, we all have to agree on just what it is we want measured.

This is the idea behind creating a digital toolkit, for a digital toolkit is just that: digital, because it's on-line and constantly updated, and a toolkit because it provides researchers with a handy set of instruments to use when measuring ICT use and penetration in enterprises. It provides some background information about ICT and what role it plays within the European economy. From this we move on to concepts that are directly related to ICT in enterprises. These concepts are then translated to measurable indicators. The review of current surveys that is described in the STILE project provided us with a wealth of existing survey questions so that many indicators that we have been able to arrive at, now have one or more possible survey questions. To allow you to have an overview of possible survey questions for these indicators, we also developed an organisational survey and questions database, next to this Toolkit. To consult this database, click the button 'Questionnaire database' in the navigator. For those of you who are still a bit confused, check out our glossary of terms for a speedy update of all the ICT terminology you could possibly want to know.

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