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Machinery and Equipment

2nd Inter-Agency Coordinating Group Meeting September 27-29, 2016

Washington, DC

Session II. Review of ICP 2017 Operational Material for Price Surveys and National Accounts Activities

Number of Products and Items: Interim List (2015)

NUMBER OF: Products ItemsSpecified

items

Unspecified

items

METAL PRODUCTS AND EQUIPMENT

Fabricated metal products 5 8 3 5

General purpose machinery 7 19 13 6

Special purpose machinery 18 42 26 16

Electrical and optical equipment 19 48 35 13

Other manufactured goods n.e.c. (!) 4 8 5 3

TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT

Motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 5 15 11 4

Other road transport (!) (merg.) 0 0 0 0

Other transport equipment (!) (merg.) 0 0 0 0

OTHER PRODUCTS

Other products (!) 7 10 10 0

TOTALS 65 150 103 47

NOTE: Unspecified items are copies of the specified itemsinformation (when available), without the brand and model specification

NOTE: All specified items do not have the “unspecified” counterpart

(!)Proposed classification change; in addition the order of the basic headings under “Metal products and equipment” would change

NOTE: A product may have more than one (brand/model) specified item

Example product: Portable rotary screw compressor

Two specified items under a product

Unspecified item is

“based on” a specific

model

The product has 3 items:

1 unspecified

2 specified

Specified brand

Specified model

Specified brand

Specified model

Survey Form (Introduced for the Interim Activities)

Each item presented in separate sheet

All entered data “recorded to the database sheet

Specified brand and model











Survey Form: Presentation of the Items & Data Entry

Observed price and other details (note: no calculation of total unit price)

Observed technical details

Observed brand and model

Comments and date

Specified brandSpecified model

Points for discussion (1)

List update 2015 –> 20172016 2017

Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May

Eurostat-OECD pre-survey list readyDraft GCL preparationDraft GCL list reviewEurostat-OECD final list readyFinal GCL list ready

Regional review and feedback can be expected?


List balancing

• Should the list of products be revisited?– Eurostat-OECD list has approximate 281 products

• Should all products have at least one unspecified item (where applicable)?– Number of items would increase from 150 to 162

• Should all specific items have “duplicate” unspecified item (where applicable)– Number of items would increase from 150 to 200

Pricing guidelines

• Price one item under each product?

• Price one specified and one unspecified products under each product (when available)?

• Price all items available, irrespectively of the product?

• Should “importance” concept be introduced together with weighted PPP calculation method?


Survey form

• Any revisions required?

• Should we (and can we…) introduce ADB’s free-form item descriptions (remarks)?

REMARKS: For the storage of petrol though rather large for this application. See next product tank to be supplied with leak detection system, complete with connection kit, dipstick and a certificate of conformity to standard cen 12285. The external finish is black bitumen but internally untreated. The specification to include five holding down straps, overfill protection valves and internal suction pipes. There is also a 600 mm diameter manway and lower access shaft. the space between the two skins is filled with monopropylene glycol.

EXAMPLE

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