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A Manual for Index of Services
Production
26 June 2007
Eun-Pyo HONG
OECD/STES
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Background
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In 2002 STESWP meeting, participants
asked to prepare:
- A practical guidelines to compile ISP for
official statisticians, where
- ISP is useful for short-term economic
analysis and for quarterly GDP compilation
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Task force was represented by 13 MCs at
the beginning but reduced in the end.
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Contents
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Infrastructure (Statistical Units, Classification, Services
industry)
Section 3: Terminologies for ISP (Services, ISP, etc.)
Section 4: Sources and methods
(Recommended variables and deflators, etc.)
Section 5: Index Compilation
(Index, transformation, consolidation, compilation procedure)
Section 6: Presentation and Dissemination
Annexes (Deflators; Recommended variables, deflators and sources)
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Comments from CSTAT Members
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21 agencies provide comments on ISP (19 MC and
NMC; and 2 international organisations):
- AUS, AUT, CAN, CZK, DEN, FRA, GER, GRE, JAP,
MEX, NOR, NZL, POL, SVK, SWE, CHE, USA; CHL
and SLV;
- ILO, Eurostat.
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All agencies except France (abstention) support ISP
manual and compilation
** Most MSs have provided comments for previous
versions
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Tentative schedule from 2007
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Early 2007: reflected CSTAT comments
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May 2007: electronic version on internet (English)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/55/37799074.pdf
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2nd half 2007: paper version (English)
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2008: French version may be available
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Further work (after 2007)
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Revision for new classifications
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Collection of more practices from MCs
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Enhancement of Annex 2
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Promotion of use of the manual by NSOs
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