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Strategic Vision for the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics

Strategic Vision for the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics. Louis Marc Ducharme Economic Statistics Branch Statistics Canada ICES-III Montréal 18-21 June 2007 Session 4. Table of Content. Origins, issues and choices. Vision and some challenges. Recent developments.

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Strategic Vision for the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics

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  1. Strategic Vision for the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics Louis Marc Ducharme Economic Statistics Branch Statistics Canada ICES-III Montréal 18-21 June 2007 Session 4

  2. Table of Content • Origins, issues and choices. • Vision and some challenges. • Recent developments. • What have we learned? • Future work agenda.

  3. Origins, Issues and Choices • Lack of resources and conceptual difficulties. • Convergence and sharing best practices. • Standards for Measurement. • Broad range of issues related to services. • Prioritize, monitor and complete tasks on conceptual and methodological issues.

  4. Vision • Development of new concepts, methods and best practices in the areas of: • Classification issues; • Output measures; • Price indices. • Maintenance and improvement of knowledge base as well as dissemination of results should be carried out by the UN Statistical Division and UN Statistical Commission.

  5. Recent Developments • Content Development Framework: • Mini presentations on current practices and methods; • Integration of sessions on turnover and prices; • Sector paper. • Price Index Thesaurus. • Country Reports and Scorecards.

  6. Price Index Thesaurus • Price methods: • Direct use of prices of repeated services; • Contract pricing; • Model pricing; • Unit values; • Component pricing; • Percentage fees; • Pricing based on working time.

  7. Price Index Thesaurus (2) • Data type in the Survey: • Percentages fees and related value; • List prices; • Input prices; • Real transaction prices; • Revenues and amount sold; • Expert estimate.

  8. Country Reports and Scorecards • Progress report on recent development on turnover and prices. • Level of alignment of turnover/output statistics and price indices for purpose of deflation. • Scoreboard have been established for six industries in 22 countries. • Half of the industry-level turnovers were or about to be aligned with its relevant price indices.

  9. Scoreboard by Industry • Freight Transport by Road (ISIC 4923). • Management Consultancy (ISIC 7020). • General Cleaning of Building (ISIC 8121). • Storage and Warehousing (ISIC 5210). • Passenger Rail Transport (ISIC 4911). • Coastal Water Transport (ISIC 5011 & 5012).

  10. Lessons Learned • Structured timetable. • Holistic approach. • Common terminology. • Scoreboard. • Work between meetings.

  11. Future Work Agenda

  12. Thank you Questions: ? louismarc.ducharme@statcan.ca

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