Christian Puchter
Statistics Austria
Warsaw
1. October 2012
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27th Voorburg Group Meeting
Warsaw 1-5 October
Updated Sector Paper on Air
Transport
We provide information
Updated Sector Paper Format
 Based on the findings of previous papers
 Highlight developments in the respective industry
 Identify and incorporate any changes in classification
 Provide information on methodological developments
 To keep the description of the sector up-to-date
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Air Transport Voorburg Group History
 2003 Mini presentations about SPPI
developments
 2004 Mini presentations and Principal Paper
on Producers Price Indexes
 2009 Revisited Sector Paper on Air Transport
 2010 Adjusting for Quality Change
 2011 Revisited paper - Adjusting for Quality
Change
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Industry Classification
ISIC
Rev.4
Title
NAICS
2007
Title
ANZSIC
2006
490
51
Air transport
481
Air transportation
511
Passenger air
transport
4811
Scheduled air
Transportation
512
Freight air
transport
4812
Non-scheduled
air transportation
Title
Air and space
transport
Air passenger
transport
4900
Air freight
transport
NACE
Rev.2
51
Title
Air transport
51.1
Passenger air
transport
51.2
Freight air
transport and
space transport
Aircraft charter,
lease or rental,
with crew, for
freight and/or
passengers
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Product Classification
CPC
Ver.2
64
65
6424
64245
Title
Passenger transport
services
Freight transport services
Air transport services of
passengers
Space transport services
of passengers
Air transport services of
6531 freight
NAPCS
(Provisional)
481
Title
CPA
2008
Air transportation
Title
Air transport
services
51
48111
Scheduled passenger
transportation by air
(huge number of further
subgroups)
51.10
Passenger air
transport services
48112
Nonscheduled chartered
passenger air
transportation
(huge number of further
subgroups)
51.2
Freight air
transport
51.22
Space transport
services
Space transport services
6532 of freight
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Industry Developments
 Airline Alliances
 Mergers and acquisitions
 Low Cost Carriers
 Computer Reservations Systems
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Industry Developments cont.
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Market Trends
 Yield Management Systems
 Air passenger taxes
 European Union Emission Trading Scheme
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Information collected for Air Transport
 Turnover:
Short Term Statistics (STS)
Structural Business Statistics (SBS)
 SPPIs:
Business to business
Business to consumers (households)
Business to all
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Turnover: NSI Practice
Category
Number
Countries
Countries collecting (STS) turnover data
of
29
Data Source
Statistical surveys
Survey & administrative data
Administrative data
18
6
5
Monthly
Bimonthly and quarterly
Monthly & quarterly
Quarterly
13
1
6
9
Collection frequency
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SPPI: NSI Practice
Category
Countries developing or producing SPPIs
Number of
Countries
26
Type of index
b2b
b2c
b2all
Pricing method (double counting)
Transaction pricing
Unit value
CPI data
Contract pricing
Model Pricing
Collection frequency
Quarterly
Monthly
Availability
Publishing the index
Produced but not published
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10
3
13
22
6
3
2
1
16
10
20
6
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SPPI Pricing Methods
 Direct use of prices of repeated services
 Unit values
 CPI
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SPPI Methodology
Surveyed products
 Product list defined with the respondents (8)
 Specific products or transactions agreed with
each individual observation unit (5)
 Standard statistical product list (e.g. CPA) (4)
 Self developed product list (2)
Data collection
 Postal and phone surveys
 Electronic questionnaires via mail
 Electronically reporting system
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Quality Adjustment
 VBG agenda items in 2010 and 2011
 Implicit methods preferred
 Overlap method
 Comparable replacement
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Main Conclusions
 Turnover part is well developed
 A sample of few enterprises results in a market
coverage above 70% in regard to turnover coverage
 Flexible economy class booking categories should
also be considered for SPPIs
 Monthly/Quarterly average prices presumably more
accurate in regard to the characteristics of yield
management systems
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Main Conclusions cont.
 CPI data for air transport for b2b SPPIs
or the consumer part of b2all SPPIs
(two other methods lead)
 IATAs Cargo Account Settlement System (CASS)
for freight air transport
 Electronically reporting systems
 To quality adjust in the case that the production
function has changed
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Please address queries to:
Christian Puchter
Contact information:
Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna
phone: +43 (1) 71128-7647
fax: +43 (1) 718 0 718
christian.puchter.@statistik.gv.at
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