KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) plans to start gathering e-commerce data in January in order to gain a fuller understanding of the growth of the digital economy and to issue appropriate policies for the sector. BPS chief Kecuk Suhariyanto said the agency would distribute questionnaires to e-commerce platforms to collect the data. “We will start data gathering in the first and second weeks of January with reference to quarterly data from 2015 and 2016 and monthly data from throughout 2017,” Kecuk said on Friday (12/15).
BPS to start collecting e-commerce data in January
KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) plans to start gathering e-commerce data in January in order to gain a fuller understanding of the growth of the digital economy and to issue appropriate policies for the sector. BPS chief Kecuk Suhariyanto said the agency would distribute questionnaires to e-commerce platforms to collect the data. “We will start data gathering in the first and second weeks of January with reference to quarterly data from 2015 and 2016 and monthly data from throughout 2017,” Kecuk said on Friday (12/15).