Glossary of Voorburg Group Terminology

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

• Definitions of preferred terminology for
• Prices Presentations
• Turnover Presentations
• Sector Papers
• Revisited Sector Papers

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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

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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!)

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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

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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?

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Questions?
John B. Murphy Assistant Division Chief for
Classification Activities, U.S. Bureau of the
Census John.Burns.Murphy_at_census.gov [phone]