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Price & Volume Measures
Country experience: Austria
Other gvt. services volume measures
I n f o r m a t i o n e n
Tommaso Gerstgrasser
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2. Content of the presentation
Volume indicators for output: prisons and taxes and customs
Time period covered 1997 – COP and CUP
Outlook on future data available
Assessment of experience gained

3. Prisons 75.23 Ministry of Justice
Volume indicator
Volume indicator for prisons: number of prisoners and reeducated prisoners weighted by their cost shares
Quality adjustment
Quality adjustment for overcrowding by 0.8 for prisoner in overcrowded cell (2003)

4. Prisons 75.23 Ministry of Justice
Results: input method vs. output method
Volume change for prisons index 1997=100
Year 98 99 00 01 02 03
Input
method
100,9
101,4
101,9
102,5
104,6
105,1
Volume
indicator
101,1
93,1
95,4
96,5
99,4
96,7

5. Taxes 75.11 Ministry of Finance
Volume indicator
Volume indicator for tax dept.: tax assessment notices (companies, employees, tariffs), no. of audits, tax fraud cases weighted by their cost shares
Quality adjustment
No quality adjustment due to lack of data

6. Taxes 75.11 Ministry of Finance
Results: input method vs. output method
Volume change for tax dept. index 1997=100
Year 98 99 00 01 02 03
Input
method
100,9
101,7
101,8
102,5
103,6
104,1
Volume
indicator
90,4
93,1
98,2
92,2
88,5
90,5

7. Outlook on future data available
Central state
Implementation of cost type accounting, cost centre accounting and activty accounting (performance analysis) as from 2005 on
Release and availability of data
Decision by MoF, available as from 2007, a possible starting point for the development of volume indicators

8. Assessment of experience gained
Difficulties encountered
Performance and productivity report does not allow implementation of output indicators for the whole of industries 75.1 and 75.2
None of the institutional subdivisions has yet adopted a result- oriented administration defining final products or output
Collecting information on output by Statistics Austria for four digit NACE 75.1 and 75.2 is not feasible at this stage