• 04/02/2023
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Czech CZSO Newspaper: Shopping over the Internet due to pandemic jumped increased<

Prague - As a result of the coronavir pandemic, people use the Internet more.For example, they make more calls, use social networks, or watch paid videos more often to limit contacts.However, according to data from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), the most visible expansion was recorded by shopping over the Internet.While by 2019 the share of shopping on the Internet grew more or less stable pace, between 2019 and 2020 this share increased from 39 percent to 54 percent, statisticians said.

Of the Czechs who bought in e-shops in the last three months, it said 30 percent that they only bought once or twice.Two fifths then bought three to five times, and 30 percent six or more times.According to statistics, the frequency of purchase has increased year -on -year.

The most common category of goods that people shop on the Internet are clothes, shoes and fashion accessories.Last year, something in this category bought 30 percent of people over 16 years of age.The second most commonly purchased type of goods was cosmetics, which bought on-line 14 percent of people.The third most common category were films and music, including paid streaming.Something in this category has also ordered 14 percent of people over the Internet.

Over 13 percent were shopping on the Internet food and drinks.According to statistics, these services were mainly used by the inhabitants of large cities where food imports over the Internet are easily accessible."In the case of shopping for food and drinks over the Internet, the Czechia is above the average of the European Union, just behind the neighboring Germany," said Martin Mana, the director of the Czech CZSO Development Statistics Department.According to statistics, the growing interest in the purchase of food over the Internet was, among other things, due to the closing of schools and moving many Home Office workers, which has led to more food consumption at home.

Pandemie also signed on the fact that Czechs on the Internet more often searched for health related topics.For example, half of men over 16 years of age, almost double the 2015 compared to 2015 last year.In the case of women's health information on the Internet searched for two thirds of them.In both cases it is above the EU average.

In the Czech Republic, the popularity of internet banking, which has already used two -thirds of adults.This is a significantly higher share than in the case of all neighboring countries.The Czechia is above average seventh in the EU countries.

The CZSO data shows that only 18 percent of Czech households, mostly seniors, were without the Internet last year without the Internet, mostly in the Czech Republic."75 percent of adults joined the Internet in the Czech Republic last year.In the age category 16 to 44 years, even 95 percent of them were online every day, "concluded Marek Rojíček, Chairman of the CZSO Marek Rojíček concluded.

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Author: CTK

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