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Table 2

Indicator system for measuring the level of digital economy

Level 1 indicators	Secondary indicators	Information entropy	Utility value	Weights	Indicator properties
Digital infrastructure (0.150)	Internet penetration	0.978	0.022	0.015	+
	Length of long-distance fiber optic cable lines	0.963	0.037	0.026	+
	Internet broadband access port	0.953	0.047	0.033	+
	Number of Internet domain names	0.891	0.109	0.076	+
Digital industrialization (0.402)	Gross industrial output value of the digital industry	0.815	0.185	0.130	+
	Digital industry practitioners	0.887	0.113	0.079	+
	Revenue from software operations	0.830	0.170	0.119	+
	Total telecommunication services	0.894	0.106	0.074	+
Digitization of industry (0.140)	E-commerce sales	0.878	0.122	0.086	+
	Enterprise informatization level	0.966	0.034	0.024	+
	Enterprise website coverage	0.989	0.011	0.008	+
	Digital Inclusive Finance Index	0.967	0.033	0.023	+
Digital governance (0.091)	Level of digital government	0.994	0.006	0.004	–
	Number of digital economy enterprises	0.909	0.091	0.064	+
	Government support	0.967	0.033	0.023	+
Digital innovation capacity (0.216)	Years of schooling per capita	0.974	0.026	0.018	+
	R&D investment intensity	0.974	0.026	0.018	+
	Full-time equivalent of R&D personnel	0.871	0.129	0.090	+
	Number of patent applications granted	0.873	0.127	0.089	+

Level 1 indicators	Secondary indicators	Information entropy	Utility value	Weights	Indicator properties
Digital infrastructure (0.150)	Internet penetration	0.978	0.022	0.015	+
	Length of long-distance fiber optic cable lines	0.963	0.037	0.026	+
	Internet broadband access port	0.953	0.047	0.033	+
	Number of Internet domain names	0.891	0.109	0.076	+
Digital industrialization (0.402)	Gross industrial output value of the digital industry	0.815	0.185	0.130	+
	Digital industry practitioners	0.887	0.113	0.079	+
	Revenue from software operations	0.830	0.170	0.119	+
	Total telecommunication services	0.894	0.106	0.074	+
Digitization of industry (0.140)	E-commerce sales	0.878	0.122	0.086	+
	Enterprise informatization level	0.966	0.034	0.024	+
	Enterprise website coverage	0.989	0.011	0.008	+
	Digital Inclusive Finance Index	0.967	0.033	0.023	+
Digital governance (0.091)	Level of digital government	0.994	0.006	0.004	–
	Number of digital economy enterprises	0.909	0.091	0.064	+
	Government support	0.967	0.033	0.023	+
Digital innovation capacity (0.216)	Years of schooling per capita	0.974	0.026	0.018	+
	R&D investment intensity	0.974	0.026	0.018	+
	Full-time equivalent of R&D personnel	0.871	0.129	0.090	+
	Number of patent applications granted	0.873	0.127	0.089	+

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