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PRODUCER PRICE INDEX FOR WIRED, WIRELESS, SATELLITE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES IN GERMANY. 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP. DEFINITION OF THE SECTOR Telecommunications comprises transmission of. voice, data, text, sound and video content, without being involved in its creation. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
PRODUCER PRICE INDEX FOR WIRED, WIRELESS, SATELLITE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SERVICES IN GERMANY
2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP
Slide 2
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
DEFINITION OF THE SECTORTelecommunications comprises
transmission of
voice, data, text, sound and video
content, without being involved in its creation
Slide 3
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Structure of the German market63.6 Bill EUR turnover in 2006, thereof
- 20.5 Bill EUR fixed line telephony
- 22.1 Bill EUR mobile Phone services
- 0.8 Bill EUR leased lines
- 7.4 Bill EUR interconnection
- 3.0 Bill EUR cable TV
- 9.8 Bill EUR other services
Slide 4
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Challenges of TC for price statistics
Market characteristics rapid changes in technology permanent introduction of new services strong competition between companies large changes in the market position of
companies
Slide 5
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Challenges of TC for price statistics
Statistical challenges good timing for introduction/dropout of
services Handling of changes in the condition of
services quality adjustments for new services handling of bundles sensitiveness of data
Slide 6
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
CPI and SPPI for TCcalculation within one unit
Advantages
persons have+ a good expertise of the markets + good contacts to companies dual use of information
but
- separate calculation procedures for CPI and SPPI
Slide 7
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Development of the German SPPI for TC In 2006 coordinated work started to revise
the CPI and to develop the SPPI
Work in two stages:
1. obtaining the weighting data for CPI and SPPI
2. developing the current surveys for SPPI
The existence of a legal obligation made work much easier than in a previous pilot phase 2003/2004
Slide 8
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
In Germany the regulation authority is not allowed to pass individual statistical data to Destatis
but Destatis got much technical advice from regulator
regulator‘s annual questionnaires were used as a basis for statistical questionnaires
results were cross checked
statistical questionnaires contained weighting information required for CPI and SPPI
Cooperation with the regulator
Slide 9
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Business to Business- and Business to All-approach
OECD/Eurostat task force: all sectors including the
public sector or private householders
EU-regulation 1158/2005 (concerning short term statistic STS-regulation)
covers only services delivered to customers that are enterprises
all
businessto
businessto
business
SPPI-concepts:
Slide 10
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Business to Business- or Business to All-approach
According to recent EU recommendations
Germany follows the Business to All-approach
Slide 11
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Sample design
- Cut-off sample of all companies with a turnover of 100 Mill EUR and more
- sample comprises 30 companies
- covers 95% of the whole turnover of TC
Slide 12
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Collection of informationUnit value approach
Units observed are:
- Turnover and
- number of .. (e.g. participants) or
- minutes of telephone calls or
- GByte of data transmission
Slide 13
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Survey programme
Division into two categories:
- Fixed line telephony and internet use
- mobile telephony
Slide 14
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Main activities observedFixed line telephony/internet use
- Private final clients (minute prices by type of call, VoIP, flat rates, bundled products by types etc.)
- Business final clients (same breakdown as above)
- Wholesale of phone calls (specific breakdown per company)
- Leased lines
- Internet (e.g. provision and access via broad band/narrow band by type, flatrates)
Slide 15
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Main activities observedMobile telephony
- Private and business final clients (basic fee, calls into different nets, flatrates, prepaid cards etc.)
- Wholesale (contract clients, prepaid cards, calls by nets, etc.)
- National roaming (language, SMS, MMS, etc.)
- International roaming (see above)
Slide 16
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Flat rates and bundled products- Increasing importance since 2006
- flat rates common for fixed line telephony, mobile phone, Internet
- bundled products mainly fixed line telephony and Internet
- all types of bundled products exist (combination of flat rates and/or quantity related tariffs)
- shift to higher data transmission standards in Internet use (quality change)
- regular update of survey programme necessary
-
Slide 17
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Burden for companies
- Specific questionnaires for companies according to their activities.
- These questionnaires form a subset of the complete survey programme
Slide 18
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Calculation procedure
Separate computation for the sectors
- fixed line telephony/internet (no separation because of bundling) and
- mobile telephony
Company specific calculation (drastic changes of market share of market participants)
Slide 19
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Calculation procedure
- Per company service output is divided into homogeneous subsets for which value and quantity data are available
- indices per service output are calculated and aggregated at the level of the company
- indices for companies are aggregated to sectoral indices
- sectoral indices are aggregated to TC total
Slide 20
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES
Discussion ?!
Roemer Peter, Destatis GermanyTelefone: ++49 (0) 611 75-2332 E-Mail: [email protected]