ICT usage in enterprises, 2022
Three out of ten enterprises are taking measures to reduce the energy consumption of their ICT equipment
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2022-11-24 8.00
Three out of ten enterprises are taking measures to reduce the energy consumption of their ICT equipment, although there is a great difference between small and large enterprises. This is shown by data from the 2022 ICT Usage in Enterprises Survey.
A total of 31 percent of enterprises state they are taking measures to reduce the energy consumption of their ICT equipment. Broken down by size, the proportion for small and medium-sized enterprises is 29 and 39 percent, respectively, while the proportion for large enterprises is 64 per cent – a difference of 35 percentage points compared to small enterprises. Broken down by industry, the largest proportion of enterprises that state they are taking measures to reduce energy consumption from their ICT equipment operate within Energy and waste-disposal, at 43 percent. Next comes Information and communication companies, at 39 per cent. The lowest proportion is in Hotels and restaurants, at 23 percent.
The industries that conduct digital meetings to the greatest extent are the ICT-sector, Information and communication companies and Energy and waste-disposal. In the ICT-sector, the proportion conducting digital meetings is 100 percent. The corresponding figures for Information and communication companies and Energy and waste-disposal are 99 and 94 percent, respectively. The same industries are also those that have the highest degree of guidelines promoting digital meetings over business travel. Out of Information and communication companies, the proportion is 70 percent followed by the ICT-sector and Energy and waste-disposal at 67 and 52 percent, respectively.
The most common way of dealing with ICT equipment that is no longer in use is to discard or return it. The second most common way is to store the equipment at the enterprise, and the least common way is to resell the equipment. Out of Information and communication companies and in the ICT-sector, it is much more common for ICT equipment to be resold and/or stored at the enterprise. Out of Information and communication companies, 57 percent of enterprises resell ICT equipment and 66 percent keep it at the company. The corresponding figures for the ICT-sector are 54 percent and 64 percent, respectively.
When choosing ICT equipment/ICT services, 42 percent of enterprises state that they take environmental impact into account. Broken down by industry, the proportion is highest among Energy and waste-disposal and lowest in the Construction industry, at 63 and 37 percent, respectively.
Definitions and explanations
The statistical news only reports on enterprises with 10 or more employees. More information on the statistics, as well as results for other study domains, can be obtained from the Statistical Database on Statistics Sweden’s website.
SNI – Swedish Industrial Classification Standard
The survey reports the following operations according to SNI 2007:
Manufacturing industry – SNI 10–33
Energy and waste-disposal – SNI 35–39
Construction industry – SNI 41-43
Trade; repair establishments for motor vehicles– SNI 45–47
Transportation and storage companies – SNI 49–53
Hotels and restaurants– SNI 55–56
Information and communication companies – SNI 58–63
Real estate companies– SNI 68
Other service companies – SNI 69–74, 77–82, 95.1
ICT-sector – SNI 26.1–26.4, 26.8, 46.5, 58.2, 61–62, 63.1, 95.1
For more information, see SNI.
Production and quality of the statistics
The questionnaire on which the data is based, as well as more information on the statistics, can be found in the documentation on the Production of the Statistics (2022). If you have any questions on the quality of the statistics, please refer to the Quality Declaration of the product (2022). These documents are provided here: ICT-usage in enterprises
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