A supply/demand conceptual framework for ICT statistics has been promulgated by the OECD’s Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society (WPIIS) (OECD, 2009a). The WPIIS has been developing statistical standards for measuring ICT since 1997, with some individual member countries active in this field since the 1980s. Statistical standards for ICT statistics include concepts (for example, the information economy and society), definitions (for example, e-commerce, ICT products11 and the ICT industry), classifications (of ICT products and ICT industries) and model surveys (of ICT use by households and businesses). The OECD has prepared a diagrammatic representation of a conceptual model.
