Turnover growth in information sector

Definitions

Name and topic: Name: Information sector, business statistics (discontinued)
Topic: Technology and innovation

Responsible division: Transport, Tourism and ICT Statistics

Definitions of the main concepts and variables

Employment

Employment is the sum of owners and employees. Persons with more than one job may be counted as an employee in several industries. The employment figures show the average number of persons employed in the year.

Turnover/sales

Turnover is defined as the sum of remuneration for rendering of services to customers and sales of merchandise, and gross income from other activities. Rental income and commissions are included, while special taxes, subsidies and profits from sales of business assets are not. VAT is not included in the statistics.

Value added

Value added means the sum of production value less the purchase of goods and services (for other goods and services than those purchased for resale) and special public taxes, and corrected for changes in stocks of raw materials and consumer goods. Special public subsidies for manufactured/sold merchandise and other public subsidies/reimbursements are included.

Enterprise

In the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) an enterprise is the smallest combination of legal entities that is an organizational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision making

Wage costs

Wage costs include wages, holiday allowance, remuneration, employers' national insurance contribution, reportable pension costs and other personnel expenses. Wage costs do not include remuneration to owners of sole proprietorships or partnerships or to family members without regular pay.

Production value

Production value means turnover adjusted for changes in inventory, and goods and services purchased for resale.

Gross operating surplus

Gross operating surplus is the surplus generated by operating activities after the labour factor input has been recompensed. It can be calculated from the value added at factor cost less the personnel costs. It is the balance available to the unit which allows it to recompense the providers of own funds and debt, to pay taxes and eventually to finance all or a part of its investement.

Gross investments

Gross investments are the total value of new capital goods such as buildings and plant (except housing), machinery, tools, fixtures and fittings and vehicles and other means of transport (except for personal use), both new and used. Improvements are added whereas sales of used capital stock are deducted. Investment figures are exclusive of incoming value added tax.

Standard classifications

The Information sector consists of the ICT sector and the content and media sector, a delimitation recommended by OECD. Figures from 2007 and onward are based on enterprises in the following industries:

ICT SECTOR:

ICT manufacturing industries:

Manufacture of electronic components and boards (26.1)
Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment (26.2)
Manufacture of communication equipment (26.3)
Manufacture of consumer electronics (26.4)
Manufacture of magnetic and optical media (26.8)

Wholesale of information and communication equipment (46.5)

ICT services industries:

Software publishing (58.2)
Telecommunications (61)
Computer programming; consultancy and related activities (62)
Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals (63.1)
Repair of computers and communication equipment (95.1)

CONTENT AND MEDIA SECTOR:

Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing activities (58.1)

Motion picture, video and television programme activities (59.1)

Sound recording and music publishing activities (59.2)

Programming and broadcasting activities (60)

Other information service activities (63.9)

Completed time series:

Time series which are based on Standard Industrial Classification SN2002.

Administrative information

Regional level: National level.

Frequency and timeliness

Frequency: anualy.

Timeliness: The statistics are published as a rule 20 months after the last reference year.

International reporting: None.

Microdata

Described in "About the statistics" for the structural business statistics:

Manufacturing statistics, structural data , Wholesale and retail trade, structural statistics , Information and communication, structural statistics

Background

Background and purpose: The purpose of the statistics is to present economic indicators for the information sector. The statistics were published for the ICT sector for the first time in 2000 and include figures back to 1995. The content sector that is a part of the information sector was included in the statistics for the first time in 2002. Earlier time series with figures up to 2007 are published according to SN2002 (EU's NACE Rev.1), and the statistical unit is the establishment. From 2007 and onwards the figures are based on Standard Industrial Classification SN2007 (EU´s NACE Rev.2) with the enterprise as a statistical unit. Figures for turnover, employment and value added are available from 1995. Figures for number of enterprises, operating income, operating costs, gross operating surplus, personnel costs, production value and gross investments are published for the first time from 2009.

Users and applications: Public authorities, businesses, professional organizations and mass media.

Coherence with other statistics: In addition to the indicators in these statistics, there are annual statistics presenting accounting data for the information sector. Accounting statistics are based on the annual accounts submitted to the Register of Company Accounts in Brønnøysund, the statistical unit is the enterprise organized as a joint-stock company. Operating income in the accunting statistics and turnover in these statistics and SBS can diverge due to several reasons. First, the definitions are different for the two variables. Second, accounting statistics comprise only joint stock companies, while these statistics and SBS comprise all enterprises in the actual industries, independent of their organisational form.

Legal authority: The Statistics Act, sections 2-2, 2-3 and 3-2.

EEA reference: None.

Production

Population

The statistics describe development in economic indicators for the industries forming the information sector. Figures for turnover, employment and value added are available from 1995. Figures for number of enterprises, operating income, operating costs, gross operating surplus, personnel costs, production value and gross investments are published for the first time from 2009. Figures for earlier years until 2007 are based on SN2002 (EU's NACE Rev.1), the statistical unit is the establishment. From 2007 and onwards the figures are based on Standard Industrial Classification SN2007 (EU´s NACE Rev.2) with the enterprise as a statistical unit, check paragraph 4.2 for the industries forming the information sector.

Figures for wholesale of ICT include all gross sales. However, the major part of gross sales covers purchases of goods for resale. Compared with other industries, wholesale and retail trade has a larger gap between gross sales and value added. This should be kept in mind when studying figures for the ICT sector turnover and the ICT wholesale share in the ICT sector turnover.

Data sources and sampling

The statistics are built on available structural business statistics (SBS):

Manufacturing statistics, structural data , Wholesale and retail trade, structural statistics , Information and communication, structural statistics

Described in "About the statistics" for the structural business statistics:

Manufacturing statistics, structural data , Wholesale and retail trade, structural statistics , Information and communication, structural statistics

Collection of data, editing and estimations

There is no separate data-collection for these statistics. Data are collected from sources described in paragraph 3.2.

Control and revision are carried out in connection with the publishing of structural business statistics.

Described in "About the statistics" for the structural business statistics:

Manufacturing statistics, structural data , Wholesale and retail trade, structural statistics , Information and communication, structural statistics

Confidentiality: According to Statistics Act Section 2-6, figures shall not be published in such a way that they may be traced to a particular respondent. There are no such problems connected to the figures in this statistics.

Comparability over time and space

For the time series up to 2007 (based on SN2002):

See About the Statistics connected to the different structural business statistics:

Manufacturing statistics, structural data , Wholesale and retail trade, structural statistics , Information and communication, structural statistics