An experimental ISP for ICT for France

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• An experimental ISP for ICT for France
• 28 June 2006
• STESWP Task Force on Services

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Objective of the experimental ISP

• To assess the practicability of the Manual,
  especially for discussions in Sections 4 and 5

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ICT services (OECD definition)
5151 Wholesale of computers, computer peripheral equipment and software
5152 Wholesale of electronic and telecommunications parts and equipment
6420 Telecommunications
7123 Renting of office machinery and equipment
72 Computer and related activities
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ISP Manual recommendations
Preferred Gross turnover deflated by appropriate price indices
Alternative Gross turnover deflated by Partially representative price indices
Other Volume indicators (e.g. employment)
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Sources for the information

• INSEE (Turnover, Prices, Value added)
• Eurostat (Turnover)
• UNEDIC (Employment)
• OECD / DSTI (Value added)

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Aggregation process
5151
51Ict
5152
7123
ICT
721
6420
722
723
72
724
725
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5151 Wholesale of computers, computer peripheral
equipment and software

• Turnover index for this category is deflated by a
  partially representative price index (PPI for
  micro-computers)
• ? Alternative method
• Other task
• Interpolate monthly PPI from quarterly data for
  1995-2002
• Assessment Recommendations from the manual were
  detailed enough

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5152 Wholesale of electronic and
telecommunications parts and equipment

• Turnover index for this category is deflated by a
  partially representative price index (CPI for
  telecopy and telephone equipment)
• ? Alternative method

• Assessment Recommendations from the manual were
  detailed enough

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6420 Telecommunications

• Turnover index for this category is deflated by a
  price index for this category (CPI)
• ? Preferred method
• Other tasks
• Backcast employment
• Interpolate quarterly turnover with another
  variable (employment)
• Convert employment series into an index
• Estimate quarterly turnover in the end of the
  series using a link with the quarterly employment
  index
• Estimate monthly index from quarterly using cubic
  spline

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7123 Renting of office machinery and equipment

• Turnover index for this category is deflated by a
  partially representative price index (PPI for
  printers)
• ? Alternative method
• Other task
• Interpolate monthly PPI
• Assessment Recommendations from the manual were
  detailed enough

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72 Computer and related activities

• Turnover indices for the components are deflated
  by their proper deflators (721, 723, 724, 725) or
  by a proxy deflator (722)
• Preferred method for 721, 723, 724 and 725
• Alternative method for 722
• Other tasks
• Interpolate monthly PPIs for 721, 723, 724 and
  725 and estimate PPI for 722 as an average of PPI
  for other sub-sectors
• Assessment Recommendations from the manual were
  detailed enough

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Aggregation process and Weights
5151
51Ict
5152
(Equal weights)
7123
ICT
(Value added weights)
721
6420
722
723
72
(Value added weights)
724
725
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Main conclusions

• For this study, the Manual provides sufficient
  level of practical guideline and MSs agreed in
  their comments
• However, no assessment could be provided for the
  recommendations on managing breaks or missing
  information for all periods
• MSs are invited for the following questions
• Use of the preferred variable when the
  alternative is available with a higher frequency
  ?
• Recommendations on the frequency of revisions

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Comments on the questions

• Preferred quarterly vs. Alternative monthly
• ONS practices Analyse each indicator using the
  quality framework possibly benchmark the monthly
  onto the quarterly ultimately rely on
  statisticians judgement
• The manual could include some guidance
• Revisions
• ONS revise ISP in line with their NA revision
  policy