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. 2022 Sep 3;30(4):9642–9657. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-22552-5

Table 1.

Digital economy development level index system

Total index Primary indicator Secondary indicator Tertiary indicator
Digital Economy Index Digital infrastructure (A1) Hardware infrastructure (B1) Internet Broadband Access Port Density (C1)
Long-distance fiber optic cable line density (C2)
Local telephone exchange capacity (C3)
Software infrastructure (B2) Number of websites (C4)
Number of web pages (C5)
Number of Ipv4 addresses (C6)
Number of domain names (C7)
Digital industry (A2) Digital industrialization (B3) Telecommunications Service Volume (C8)
Mobile Phone Production (C9)
Production of Integrated Circuits (C10)
Microcomputer Equipment Production(C11)
Software business revenue (C12)
Revenue from Information Technology Services (C13)
Information transmission, computer services and software industry employees (C14)
Industry digitization (B4) Express delivery volume (C15)
E-commerce transaction volume (C16)
Number of websites per 100 enterprises (C17)
Percentage of enterprises with e-commerce transaction activities (C18)
Digital finance (A3) Breadth of coverage (B5) Refer to Guo et al. (2020)
Depth of application (B6) Refer to Guo et al. (2020)
Digitization level (B7) Refer to Guo et al. (2020)