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REPORT OF 2008 OECD SOFTWARE SURVEY
Working Party on National AccountsParis, 14-16 October 2008
Jiemin GUO
Introduction• 2001 OECD task force for implementation
of SNA93 treating software as fixed asset.• Two previous software surveys
• 2002 survey – result reported to OECD WPNA2002
• 2004 small follow-up survey – result reported to OECD WPNA 2004
• 2007 OECD task force on R&D and Other Intellectual Property Products
• The 2008 software survey: for the handbook with updated information
2008 OECD Software Survey
• Scope: OECD countries and accession countries (35)
• 20 countries responded – 19 OECD Members– Israel
Basic approach (1)- Purchased software
• 15 out of 20 countries use a combination of supply-side and demand-side data.• Most adopt confrontation and balancing process.• Some rely more on the supply-side data and just
use the proportions from the survey estimates to allocate the supply-side aggregate to using industries and sectors,
• others, such as the Netherlands, place more reliance on the demand-side data.
• Countries had different views on the quality of the survey data. Some countries had concerns, but others thought they were of satisfactory quality.
Basic approach (2)- Own account software
• Six countries indicated that they also use surveys to obtain estimates of own account software GFCF. • Three of them also use a macro
method to derive estimates• The others rely solely on the survey
estimates.
Basic approach (3)
• The remaining 5 of the 20 countries use the supply-side approach only for purchased software and the macro approach only for own account software.
Supply-side approach
• Countries were asked to provide details for the 7 steps for estimating software prescribed in the Handbook.• There is considerable variation in country
practices and the relative magnitude of the adjustments.
– Avoiding double counting– Excluding maintenance from software supply– Exclusion of household consumption.
• Identifying imports of software is a major problem for many countries.
Macro approach to the estimation of own account software
• Most countries use employment of software professionals, but the coverage varies
• There is also considerable variation in the assumed proportions of the time spent by these people, ranges from 12.5% to 50%.
• The mark-up for non-labour costs varies a great deal, from 50% to 120% of labour costs.
SNA 2008 recommendation on software licences
• Most countries reported that no data collected.
• It appears that it will be difficult to implement in practice, and it is something the TF needs to address.
• Possible solutions:– Add questions to surveys on length of software
licences– Ask software publishers for length of software
licences for business software
R&D and software
• Only a few countries report having estimates of software R&D. – Only 8 countries answered.– 6 countries conducted R&D Survey.– 4 countries reported that R&D is included in
the estimates of software GFCF.
• Probably not much thought has been given to inclusion of software R&D by other countries.
Software price indices
• US (BEA) has established software price indices for different components
• A number of countries use the same approach as the BEA or use the adjusted BEA price index for packaged software.
• Most of the others use various PPIs, CPIs or wage rates.
Software service lives
• Most countries do not use different service lives for packaged and own account/customised software.
• Overall, the service lives used vary between 3 and 8 years.