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Dimension Economy
Sub-Dimension Productivity

Category Employment
KPI Name ICT Sector Employment
KPI No. EC: P: EM: 4A Type: Advanced Type: Structural

Definition / Percentage of the city labour force working in the ICT sector
Description

Rationale / This indicator refers to the total workforce involved in the ICT sector as a
Interpretation / proportion of the total business workforce.
Benchmarking
ICT workforce (or ICT employment) consists of those persons employed
in businesses that are classified under the ICT sector. In other words, ICT
employment is defined as the people working in the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Total business workforce represents all
persons engaged in domestic production in the business sector. This indicator is
measured as a percentage of business sector employment.
An ICT sector can be defined as a manufacturing and service industry whose
products capture, transmit or display data and information electronically.
For manufacturing industries, the products of a candidate industry (OECD, 2017):
• must be intended to fulfil the function of information processing and
communication, including transmission and display; and
• must use electronic processing to detect, measure and/or record physical
phenomena or control a physical process.
For services industries, the products of a candidate industry:
• must be intended to enable the function of information processing and
communication by electronic means.
Given that the smart city infrastructure relies on ICTs, it is essential that the
ICT sector has the required workforce to carry forth the research and facilitate
advancements related to digital technologies.
Higher percentage indicates higher number of workers in the ICT sector.
Source(s) NOTE – OECD (2005). Partnership on measuring ICT for development. Retrieved
from <https:// www .itu .int/ ITU -D/ ict/ partnership/ material/ CoreICTIndicators .pdf>
and OECD 2017 – <https:// data .oecd .org/ ict/ ict -employment .htm>

Methodology Calculate as:
Numerator: Number of employees in the ICT Sector.
Denominator: Total number of the city labour force.
Multiply by 100.

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