Article in Revista Colombiana de Computación · January 001 Source: dblp citations reads 217 authors

3.5 Data analysis procedure
The steps followed to carry out the analysis of the information gathered through the questionnaires 
were the following: 
1) 
Distribution by sectors of companies participating in the field study.
It became necessary 
to group and classify the participating companies, as it was observed that certain subsets 
thereof carry out the same economic activity, in other words, attend to and meet similar needs 
in the Venezuelan population. In this regard, a research carried out by Dávalos et al. [9] 
emphasized that 
“all companies or entities cannot be treated alike, because they are dedicated 
to completely different economic activities”.
[9] On the basis of the foregoing; a classification 
or division by sectors of the participating companies was deemed necessary in order to better 
interpret the results obtained from the field study; otherwise mixed results would be obtained 
for dissimilar organizations. The division by sectors undertaken depended mainly on the kind 
of activity performed by each company. The 19 participating companies were finally grouped 
as follows: 
• Banking Sector: Companies and institutions undertaking financial activities in the country 
and, in some cases, in foreign markets. 
• Consultancy Sector: Companies dedicated to providing consultancy and advisory activities to 
other companies in the fields of engineering and management. 
• IS-Development Sector: Companies carrying out IS-development and maintenance activities. 
• Government Sector: Entities dedicated to activities inherent to the Venezuelan State. The 
owner of these entities being the State itself. 
• Services Sector: Companies and institutions performing service-related activities, in other 
words 
“Supply of immaterial goods to persons, communities or companies”.
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The Table 6 shows the detailed distribution of the respondents per type and per sector, after 

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grouping the 19 participating by sector.