UNIDO INDSTAT3 2006

Industrial Statistics Database at the 3-digit level of ISIC (Revision 2)

Available on CD-ROM

Since 1984 UNIDO has been making available on CD-ROM to researchers outside the United Nations system its database (INDSTAT3) on industrial statistics at the 3-digit level of Revision 2 of the International Standard Industrial classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC). The database is briefly described below.

Objectives and Purpose

In the development of the database, which was set up in 1979 to facilitate the work of UNIDO economists and researchers, the first priority has been to satisfy the data requirements of multinational, or inter-country, studies. Much of the work has thus consisted in developing a set of data that are comparable and consistent, both between countries and over time. Statisticians have given particular attention to the need to reconcile differences in national statistical practices, as reflected in the use of different classifications and definitions and in variations in the scope and coverage of data. Despite the fact that majority of countries reporting regularly have made a switch-over from Revision 2 to Revision 3 of ISIC in their data-reporting systems, UNIDO maintains the ISIC (Revision 2)-based INDSTAT3 Database, which refers to 1963 onwards, for long-term analysis.

Content and Coverage

The data are arranged according to the ISIC at the three-digit level, which provides for the inclusion of 29 industries (see Table 2) in the manufacturing sector. Information refers to each of the following items and is presented by country, year and ISIC category: number of establishments, employment, wages and salaries, output, value added, gross fixed capital formation, number of female employees and production indexes. All value data are originally stored in national currency values at current prices. The system allows for data conversion from national currency into current U.S. dollars using the average period exchange rates as given in the IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS) under series rf.

Table 1 shows the extent of coverage in the 2006 version of the database in approximate numbers of observations:

Table 1: Database Coverage of INDSTAT3 2006
Number of establishments (a)	54,710
Employment	105,860
Females employed (a)	18,650
Wages and salaries	96,910
Output	98,140
Value added	91,880
Gross fixed capital formation	63,050
Production indexes (1995=100)	88,030
Number of countries	181
Reference period:	1963-2004

(a) Reference period: 1981-2004.

Within the reference period, the coverage of years may differ from country to country, depending on data availability.

Sources of Information

Four major sources have been used in compiling and cleaning the data contained in the UNIDO database. First, industry data reported in country questionnaires are included. National publications for industrial censuses, annual surveys and input-output tables are the second. Over 1,000 such publications have been collected by UNIDO during the project. Thirdly, international sources, both published and unpublished, have been used. Finally, a fourth source has been national data compiled by statisticians engaged by UNIDO to work in specific countries. Furthermore, the data have been supplemented with UNIDO estimates.

Data for OECD member countries are collected by OECD through OECD/UNIDO joint country questionnaires and provided to UNIDO for inclusion in the database.

The methods used and the extent to which comparability and consistency have been achieved to date are described in "UNIDO Industrial Statistics Database - Methodological Notes" (IRD/R.11).

Updating and Maintenance of the Database

UNIDO maintains and updates the data annually. Future CD-ROMs of INDSTAT3 will contain data for an additional year, as well as revisions, corrections and extensions in coverage that may include observations for earlier years dating back as far as 1963.

CD-ROM

INDSTAT3 is available on CD-ROM and is distributed with a user-friendly query and retrieval programme for MS Windows. Data can be easily selected and displayed via a menu-driven interface and can be exported as Excel, ASCII or CSV (comma separated values) files.

Price

INDSTAT3 is priced in Euros at the rates shown below:

	Universities, non-commercial research institutions, government agencies		Commercial firms
	For internal use	For secondary dissemination	For internal use	For secondary dissemination
Initial purchase	EUR 400	EUR 1,600	EUR 1,200	EUR 4,800
Yearly update	EUR 120	EUR 1,320	EUR 360	EUR 3,960

Payment should be made by:

• VISA or MASTERCARD (please quote card-owner's name, account number, expiry date), or
• through bank draft or cheque in favour of UNIDO, or
• through a direct bank deposit to UNIDO:

Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (BLZ 12000), VIC Branch, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, Euro account IBAN No. AT 7911 000 00290510700, SWIFT/BIC: BKAUATWW

Cheques should be forwarded to the Statistics Unit, Research and Statistics Branch, UNIDO, P.O. Box 300, A-1400 Vienna, Austria. In order to enable identification of payment, the invoice number must be quoted as purpose of payment.