Monitoring eAccessibility in Europe: 2011 Annual Report
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Policy implementation
This section includes indicators of context on certain aspects of socioeconomic status and implementation of ICT in the countries studied, which are summarised in a synthetic index. The indicators used are:
These indicators take discrete values in accordance with the criteria specified in the methodology of the study, which have been transformed into a percentage scale. The synthetic index is obtained as the average of the indicators listed. Figure . Background information indicators in EU and non-EU countries Source: Own elaboration, 2011. Unit: Percentages Figure . Background information score, by country Source: Own elaboration, 2011. Unit: Percentages The overall value of the synthetic index in the EU countries studied is the same as that in countries outside the EU (45%). However, EU countries reached, on average, higher values on the indicators related to income distribution and public spending on social benefits, and lower on the indicators related to the implementation of ICT. The country with the best synthetic index is Sweden (72%), followed by Norway (59%) and the Netherlands and Denmark (54%). In all these cases, the scores on both the Networked Readiness Index and the ICT Development Index are high. Income distribution in the general population provides information about the income distribution in the country as expressed in Gini coefficients. The score, on a percentage basis, is: 0= large inequalities (Gini coefficient 0.4-1.0), 50= medium inequalities (Gini coefficient 0.3-0.39); 100= low inequalities (Gini coefficient 0-0.29). The countries with the highest scores in this indicator are Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic, Denmark and Germany, while USA recorded the lowest score. Proportion of people with income below the poverty line is a composite index that measures the rate of poverty by disability status and the differences between the poverty rate for people with disabilities and the rest of the population. The score of this indicator ranges from 0 to 100. Public expenditures on social benefits are an indicator related to the social policy profile of the country. The score is based on the average public expenditure on social benefits of the EU27 as a percentage of GDP: 0= less (-5/-10 % less) than the EU27 average, 50= the same (+/ - 3 %) as the EU27 average, 100= more (+5% or more) than the EU27 average. Networked Readiness Index (NRI) refers to the information society readiness as measured by the World Economic Forum on the Networked Readiness Index 2008–2009 on a scale from 0 to 7. The score is: 0= low (NRI 0-4.9), 50= medium (NRI 5.0-5.29), 100= high (NRI 5.3 or above). ICT Development Index (IDI), as measured by the International Telecommunication Union on a scale from 0 to 10, combines several key performance indicators into one single figure that captures a variety of information society developments and provides a comprehensive picture of where countries stand in their evolution towards an information society. The score is: 0= low (IDI 0-5.49), 50= medium (IDI 5.50 -6.99), 100= high (IDI 7.00 or above). Table . Background information
Source: Own elaboration, 2011. Unit: Percentages
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