EVALUATION OF EXISTING EUROSTAT STATISTICS

6. ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The right to access information and communication technologies and systems on an equal basis with others is set out in Article 9 of the UNCRPD. In the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021–2030, accessibility and equal access to digital environments are recognised as key conditions for participation on an equal basis with others.

Indicator	Data source	Disability measurement	Periodicity of data collection	Population
1. Persons regularly using the internet	Information and Communication Technology Survey (ICT) [dsb_ictiu02]	GALI	Annually	16–74 years

Table 8: Indicator identified as strong candidate for inclusion in the Nordic Statistics Database on access to information.

Indicator	Data source	Disability measurement	Periodicity of data collection	Population
1. Persons regularly using the internet	Information and Communication Technology Survey (ICT) [dsb_ictiu02]	GALI	Annually	16–74 years

Table 8: Indicator dentified as strong candidate for inclusion in the Nordic Statistics database on access to information.

Figure 21: Share of persons regularly using the internet by level of disability in 2024.

Data not available for Denmark and Iceland.

Source: Eurostat [dsb_ictiu02__custom_21520873]

The indicator on persons regularly using the internet by level of disability, shown in Figure 21, is a strong candidate for inclusion in the Nordic Statistics Database. The graph shows that the internet is widely used in the three Nordic countries where data are available; in Norway, the gap between persons with disabilities and persons without disabilities is only 1 percentage point. In Sweden and Finland, there is a difference in internet usage between persons with and without disabilities, but the gap is less pronounced than on average in the European Union.