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27 th Voorburg Group Meeting Warsaw 1-5 October. Christian Puchter Statistics Austria Warsaw 1. October 2012. Updated Sector Paper on Air Transport. Updated Sector Paper Format. Based on the findings of previous papers Highlight developments in the respective industry
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27thVoorburg Group Meeting Warsaw 1-5 October Christian Puchter Statistics Austria Warsaw 1. October 2012 Updated Sector Paper on Air Transport
Updated Sector Paper Format • Based on the findings of previous papers • Highlight developments in the respective industry • Identify and incorporate any changes in classification • Provide information on methodological developments • To keep the description of the sector up-to-date
Air Transport Voorburg Group History • 2003 Mini presentations about SPPI developments • 2004 Mini presentations and Principal Paper on Producers Price Indexes • 2009 Revisited Sector Paper on Air Transport • 2010 Adjusting for Quality Change • 2011 Revisited paper - Adjusting for Quality Change
IndustryClassification No changes
ProductClassification No changes
IndustryDevelopments • Airline Alliances • Mergers and acquisitions • Low Cost Carriers • Computer Reservations Systems
Market Trends • Yield Management Systems • Air passenger taxes • European Union Emission Trading Scheme
Information collectedfor Air Transport • Turnover: • Short Term Statistics (STS) • Structural Business Statistics (SBS) • SPPIs: • Business to business • Business to consumers (households) • Business to all
SPPI PricingMethods • Direct use of prices of repeated services • Unit values • CPI
SPPI Methodology • Surveyed products • Product list defined with the respondents (8) • Specific products or transactions agreed with • each individual observation unit (5) • Standard statistical product list (e.g. CPA) (4) • Self developed product list (2) • Data collection • Postal and phone surveys • Electronic questionnaires via mail • Electronically reporting system
Quality Adjustment • VBG agenda items in 2010 and 2011 • Implicit methods preferred • Overlap method • Comparable replacement
Main Conclusions • Turnover part is well developed • A sample of few enterprises results in a market coverage above 70% in regard to turnover coverage • Flexible economy class booking categories should also be considered for SPPIs • Monthly/Quarterly average prices presumably more accurate in regard to the characteristics of yield management systems
Main Conclusionscont. • CPI data for air transport for b2b SPPIs • or the consumer part of b2all SPPIs • (two other methods lead) • IATAs Cargo Account Settlement System (CASS) • for freight air transport • Electronically reporting systems • To quality adjust in the case that the production • function has changed
Please address queries to: Christian Puchter Contact information: Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna phone: +43 (1) 71128-7647 fax: +43 (1) 718 0 718 christian.puchter.@statistik.gv.at