Appendix III: JRC Statistical Audit of the 2025 Network Readiness Index

This document contains the Statistical Audit of the 2025 Network Readiness Index (NRI) conducted by the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC). The NRI was first published in 2002 by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Information Technology Report, and the present Statistical Audit is the fifth conducted by the JRC-COIN. The audit focuses on the statistical soundness of the multi-level structure of the index as well as on the impact of key modelling assumptions on the results. The findings confirm that the NRI 2025 is a reliable tool with a statistically coherent framework, which manages to adequately capture the multifaceted phenomenon of ICT deployment.

RAVANOS Panagiotis;  LAGÜERA GONZÁLEZ Jaime;  KRYLOVA Petra; 

2026-03-13

Portulans Institute

JRC145916

979-8-90271-058-5 (online),   

https://networkreadinessindex.org,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC145916,