Glossary of Voorburg Group Terminology

1. Glossary of Voorburg Group Terminology 23rd Meeting of the Voorburg Group John Murphy Assistant Division Chief for Classification Activities U.S. Census Bureau

2. Glossary Content • Definitions of preferred terminology for: • Prices Presentations • Turnover Presentations • Sector Papers • Revisited Sector Papers

3. Glossary Development Process • Rather than recreate the wheel, existing definitions were sought for the glossary • Numerous sources for existing definitions were identified • 165 terms covering important aspects of turnover, prices, and national accounts programs – not exhaustive

4. Selection of Terms • Review of past presentations – particularly the papers prepared for the Voorburg Group meetings over the past three years • Review of the General Methodology Paper draft • Review of the Voorburg Group Thesaurus • Subjective inclusion criterion – (If I was confused, I added the term!)

5. Major Sources • 1993 System of National Accounts, United Nations • Thesaurus of Producer Price Indices for Services, Voorburg Group, 2007 • Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services, Eurostat/OECD, 2005 • Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services, UN, 2002

6. Additions and Updates • All suggestions for additional terms are welcome • All changes, corrections, clarifications to the existing content are welcome • Suggestions to make this a more useful document?

7. Questions? John B. Murphy Assistant Division Chief for Classification Activities, U.S. Bureau of the Census John.Burns.Murphy@census.gov (301) 763-5172