Based on a self-assessment, the indicator shows how digital skills are distributed in the German resident population aged 14 and over. The indicator provides information on which population groups in Germany are more prepared for the digital transformation and which population groups may still need to catch up.
Based on the European Reference Framework for Digital Competences (DigComp for short) of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, the digital competencies were surveyed representatively in Germany in the bidt-SZ-Digitalbarometer with the help of the self-assessment test DigCompSAT (Clifford et al. 2020). The test consists of a total of 82 individual statements on five competence areas.
The digital competencies show differences both by socio-demographic characteristics and between individual federal states.
