Project aims

  • Investigate the economic aspects of e-commerce in the retail sector; report on the most popular expressions of e-commerce today and on future extensions.


  • Elaboration of a survey aimed at European companies involved in the retail sector on the Internet. This survey will also involve European statistics offices.


  • Investigate the procedures and concepts to be implemented in order to collect statistical information from electronic transactions.


  • Investigate the technical aspects which, in the future, might allow linkage of e-commerce to SERT (Business Statistics and Telematic Networks) activities.