Author(s)

Peng Dingying ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Big Data and Statistics, Anhui University, Hefei, China

Corresponding Author

Peng Dingying

ABSTRACT

The digital economy has become the 'new engine' of economic growth with the development of information technology. Under the new normal of China's economy shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development growth, the digital economy will become the direction and breakthrough of the new round of economic growth. Measuring the digital economy comprehensively and accurately has become a key part of the development of the digital economy. This paper constructed an evaluation index system for the development level of the digital economy of 16 prefectural-level city in Anhui Province based on municipal panel data from 2011 to 2021 in relation to three dimensions: digital infrastructure, digital government, and digital society based on the entropy weighting method. Moreover, this article compared the development level of the central, northern, and southern regions of Anhui Province using the coefficient of variation and the Thiel index. The study's results indicated significant differences in the level of digital economy development among the 16 prefecture-level cities in Anhui Province across all three dimensions and the inter-regional differences of the digital economy development level in three regions of central, northern and southern of Anhui Province are also shrinking. Furthermore, the results of Thiel index found the differences contribute within region more than between, and this gap is widening. These results may help the policymakers to understand the current situation, problems and challenges of the digital economy in Anhui Province, and make corresponding policy recommendations.

KEYWORDS

Digital Economy, Entropy Weight Method, Thiel Index

CITE THIS PAPER

Peng Dingying, Measuring the Development Level of Digital Economy: Taking 16 Prefecture-level Cities in Anhui Province as an Example. Information Systems and Economics (2024) Vol. 5: 17-26. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/infse.2024.050103.

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