1. Glossary of Voorburg Group Terminology
23rd Meeting of the Voorburg Group
John Murphy
Assistant Division Chief for Classification Activities
U.S. Census Bureau

2. Definitions of preferred terminology for:
Glossary Content
Definitions of preferred terminology for:
Prices Presentations
Turnover Presentations
Sector Papers
Revisited Sector Papers

3. Glossary Development Process
Rather than recreate the wheel, existing definitions were sought for the glossary
Numerous sources for existing definitions were identified
165 terms covering important aspects of turnover, prices, and national accounts programs – not exhaustive

4. Selection of Terms
Review of past presentations – particularly the papers prepared for the Voorburg Group meetings over the past three years
Review of the General Methodology Paper draft
Review of the Voorburg Group Thesaurus
Subjective inclusion criterion – (If I was confused, I added the term!)

5. Major Sources 1993 System of National Accounts, United Nations
Thesaurus of Producer Price Indices for Services, Voorburg Group, 2007
Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services, Eurostat/OECD, 2005
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services, UN, 2002

6. Additions and Updates All suggestions for additional terms are welcome
All changes, corrections, clarifications to the existing content are welcome
Suggestions to make this a more useful document?

7. Questions? John B. Murphy
Assistant Division Chief for Classification Activities, U.S. Bureau of the Census
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