Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. It is more than just buying and selling products online. It also includes the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products and services. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage.
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Statistical Reference Document
Excerpt: Census Bureau data show that business to business (B-to-B) e-commerce dominated 1999 e-commerce activity. E-Stats provides the first official snapshot of e-commerce activity for key sectors of the U.S. economy. This report shows that while e-commerce in 1999 accounted for a relatively small percent of total economic activity in these sectors, e-commerce transactions between businesses, commonly referred to as B-to-B e-commerce, accounted for a remarkably large s...
Excerpt: This latest edition of E-Stats provides a snapshot of e-commerce activity for key sectors of the U.S. economy for 2000 and revises previously released data for 1999. The data are collected from over 125,000 manufacturing, wholesale, services, and retail businesses. E-commerce highlights in 2000 include ... Business-to-business (B-to-B) e-commerce dominates ... E-commerce grew in all sectors ... E-commerce is pervasive among the industry groups in each sector ......
Excerpt: Census Bureau data show that business to business (B-to-B) e-commerce dominated 1999 e-commerce activity. E-Stats provides the first official snapshot of e-commerce activity for key sectors of the U.S. economy. This report shows that while e-commerce in 1999 accounted for a relatively small percent of total economic activity in these sectors, e-commerce transactions between businesses, commonly referred to as B-to-B for 0.5 percent ($15 billion) of total retail sales.
Excerpt: Census Bureau data show that business to business (B-to-B) e-commerce dominated 1999 e-commerce activity. E-Stats provides the first official snapshot of e-commerce activity for key sectors of the U.S. economy. This report shows that while e-commerce in 1999 accounted for a relatively small percent of total economic activity in these sectors, e-commerce transactions between businesses, commonly referred to as B-to-B ...
Excerpt: E-commerce 2001 Highlights ... E-commerce outperformed total economic activity in three of four major economic sectors measured between 2000 and 2001 ... Business-to-Business (B-to B) activity, which depends critically on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), dominates e-commerce ... All industry groups in each sector participate in e-commerce ... Most e-commerce occurs in a handful of industry groups within each sector. This latest edition of E-Stats provides a sn...
Excerpt: Census Bureau data show that business to business (B-to-B) e-commerce dominated 1999 e-commerce activity. E-Stats provides the first official snapshot of e-commerce activity for key sectors of the U.S. economy. This report shows that while e-commerce in 1 ...
Excerpt: E-commerce outperformed total economic activity in three of four major economic sectors measured between 2000 and 2001. Business-to-Business (B-to B) activity, which depends critically on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), dominates e-commerce. All industry groups in each sector participate in e-commerce. Most e-commerce occurs in a handful of industry groups within each sector.
Excerpt: E-commerce, on a percent change basis, outperformed total economic activity in all four major economic sectors measured between 2001 and 2002. // Business-to-Business activity, which depends critically on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), dominated e-commerce. // All industry groups in each sector participated in e-commerce. // Most e-commerce occurred in a handful of industry groups within each sector.
Excerpt: E-commerce outperformed total economic activity in three of four major economic sectors measured between 2000 and 2001 ... Business-to-Business (B-to B) activity, which depends critically on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), dominates e-commerce ... All industry groups in each sector participate in e-commerce ... Most e-commerce occurs in a handful of industry groups within each sector. This latest edition of E-Stats provides a snapshot of e-commerce activity f...
Excerpt: ... E-commerce, on a percent change basis, outperformed total economic activity in all four major economic sectors measured between 2001 and 2002 ... Business-to-Business activity, which depends critically on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), dominated e-commerce ... All industry groups in each sector participated in e-commerce ... Most e-commerce occurred in a handful of industry groups within each sector. This edition of E-Stats provides a snapshot of e-comme...
Excerpt: E-commerce, on a percent change basis, outperformed total economic activity in all four major economic sectors measured between 2002 and 2003 ... Business-to-Business activity, which depends critically on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), dominated e-commerce ... Most e-commerce occurred in a handful of industry groups within each sector ... For the first time, manufacturers? sales branches and offices (MSBOs) were included in the 2003 Annual Trade Survey and t...
Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
Excerpt: The Department of Defense?s (DOD) Joint Electronic Commerce Program is an outgrowth of the Defense Reform Initiative. Established in May 1998, the program is intended to increase the use of electronic business practices that are common in private sector companies, practices such as using the Internet and commercially available computer software to conduct business. Through this program, the Department expects that all of its business functions-from acquisitions ...
Excerpt: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2004, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $17.6 billion, an increase of 4.7 percent (ñ1.7%) from the second quarter of 2004. Total retail sales for the third quarter of 2004 were estimated at $916.5 billion, an increase of 1.4 percent (ñ0.3%) from the second ...
Excerpt: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2004, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $18.4 billion, an increase of 4.7 percent (ñ3.1%) from the third quarter of 2004. Total retail sales for the fourth quarter of 2004 were estimated at $938.5 billion, an increase of 2.4 percent (ñ0.3%) from the third ...
Excerpt: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of 2005, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $19.8 billion, an increase of 6.4 percent (ñ2.1%) from the fourth quarter of 2004. Total retail sales for the first quarter of 2005 were estimated at $916.9 billion, an increase of 1.5 percent (ñ0.2%) from the fourth ...
Excerpt: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2005, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $21.1 billion, an increase of 7.2 percent (ñ0.8%) from the first quarter of 2005. Total retail sales for the second quarter of 2005 were estimated at $940.8 billion, an increase of 2.6 percent (ñ0.3%) from the first ...
Excerpt: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2005, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $22.3 billion, an increase of 5.7 percent (ñ1.7%) from the second quarter of 2005. Total retail sales for the third quarter of 2005 were estimated at $957.9 billion, an increase of 1.8 percent (ñ0.3%) from the second ...