individuals with decision making responsibilities in the company
Method of interview
Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)
Supplementary notes
* The base of respondents for this question consisted of those companies that sold their products/services online outside of their country in 2014, but this number for Spain was not given by the source.
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Language barrier experienced by Spanish e-commerce companies in EU 2014
This statistic displays how much of a problem the lack of language skills was for Spanish companies trying to sell products and/or services online in the rest of the EU in 2014. Almost 20 percent of respondents claimed that lacking language skills posed a major problem for their attempts to make sales online outside of Spain.
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