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a need of guidance on measurement of services.
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PPI for services was considered as an obvious core issue of most countries and international organisations.
Many countries supported the proposal to enlarge ICT to knowledge based economy with focus on measurement of impacts of ICT usage and qualification and skills of the employees within the knowledge producing service activities. Some questions were however raised if the group had the necessary experts to handle this subject and if this issue was not already covered in other forums. The need of international cooperation both between national and international institutes in order to avoid duplication of work was stressed.
Ad hoc issues are important. Freedom for new issues from new countries has to be allowed. Bring the group open to new countries. Non-profit institutions and employment are hard issues. Focus should be on special subjects and not on measurement tools.
Short-term statistics are very important for ECB. Balance of Payment is handled already of other organisations.
The Future for the Voorburg Group - conclusions
The Voorburg group adopted the proposed Work program for 2002-2004 that was put forward by the Bureau apart from some smaller changes in proposed list of themes (see point 3 below).
The group should continue to be one group which implies that all the necessary expertise knowledge can be collected from the separate member countries. The group should also in the future be interested in all services and also in services produced in manufacturing.
The meeting will be organised in a new way with parallel sessions according a proposal from the Bureau described in the scheme below. The two parallel session will be on Prices and ICT, which will take place on Monday afternoon and on Tuesday. The results from the parallel sessions will be presented and discussed on Thursday.
Day
Am
Pm
Monday
Welcome
Prices
ICT
Tuesday
Prices
ICT
Prices
ICT
Wednesday
Host day
Host day
Thursday
Open subject
Classification
Friday
Open subject
Future
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Lead of Prices: US
Lead of ICT: Finland
Lead of classification: Statistics Canada
Lead of sales of service products: UK
Lead of non-profit institutions: ?
The core issues will be limited to the following three:
- PPI for services (focusing on advertising, computer services, engineering services, insurance and banking and road freight)
- Classification of service activities and products (focusing on the needs of the 2007 revision especially in relation to the possible development of an information sector)
- ICT- enlarged with related areas (knowledge based economy), especially focusing on measurement of impacts of ICT usage and qualification and skills of employees within the knowledge producing service activities):
The ad hoc issues in the work program for 2002-2004 will be:
- Non profit institutions
- Sales by service products
- Short-term indicators
The ad hoc issues do not need to be at the agenda each of the three forthcoming meetings.
Some results regarding non-profit institutions could probably be presented as country reports from some of the members next year.
A point on the agenda next year could be to present some results from the Eurostat project concerning in-depth surveys within NACE 74 that some of the countries are going to conduct during the first part of 2002.
Efforts will also be made to inte