| ANNEX: STATISTICAL
NOTES AND DEFINITIONS |
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| 1. In this
Bulletin, the electronics industry is defined to
include the following 7 Activity Headings from the
1992 Standard Industrial Classification of Economic
Activities. |
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| Data
Processing Equipment |
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| 30020
Manufacture of computers and other information processing
equipment |
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| Electronic
Components |
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| 32100
Manufacture of electronic valves and tubes and other
electronic components |
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| Electronic
Instrument Engineering |
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| 33201
Manufacture of electronic instruments and appliances for
measuring, checking, testing, navigating and other
purposes, except industrial process control equipment |
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| Other
Electronics |
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| 32201
Manufacture of telegraph and telephone apparatus and
equipment |
| 32202
Manufacture of radio and electronic capital goods |
| 32300
Manufacture of television and radio receivers, sound or
video recording or reproducing apparatus and associated
goods |
| 33301
Manufacture of electronic industrial control equipment |
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| Manufacturing
as a whole is defined as Divisions 15 to 37 of the 1992
SIC. |
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| 2. Output
statistics come from the Index of Production for
Scotland, which is published quarterly by the Scottish
Office Education and Industry Department. The Index
measures the change in value of output by the production
process of each industry. The index is a weighted average
of 164 individual industry series, where the weights
are derived, for the most part, from the value added by
each industry in the base year, as shown in the Annual
Census of Production. The indices in this Bulletin are
based on 1995=100. |
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| 3. Employment,
gross value added, ownership and net capital expenditure
statistics come from the Scottish Office Education and
Industry Department’s Scottish Production Database
(SPD) which is constructed from an annual sample survey,
formerly known as the Annual Census of Production (ACOP),
carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). |
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| 4. Total
Employment represents the average number of full
time and part time employees on the
payroll and the number of working proprietors employed
during the year. The average number of employees returned
by individual businesses may have been calculated by, for
example, the average of the number of employees on the
payroll for the last week of each calendar month. |
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| Average
number of Full Time Employees |
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| This
represents all full time employees, including directors
who received a definite wage, salary, fee or commission. |
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| Average
number of Part Time Employees |
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| This
represents employees who normally work 30 hours a week or
less. |
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| Working
Proprietors |
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| These people
who are regarded as self-employed for national insurance
purposes, members of their families who worked in the
business without receiving a definite wage or salary for
at least half the normal working hours and directors who
worked in the business but did not receive a definite
wage, salary or commission. Part-time directors paid by
fee only and directors who received a definite wage,
salary or commission are excluded. |
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| 5. Total
Employment adjusted for Part Time Workers represents
the average number of full time and 50% of part time
employees on the payroll and the number of working
proprietors employed during the year. |
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| 6. Gross
Value Added at Factor Cost is calculated by deducting
from net output the cost of non-industrial
services received. |
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| 7. Gross
Value Added at Basic Prices is calculated by
adjusting gross value added at factor cost
for taxes and subsidies incurred during production. |
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| 8. Net
capital expenditure represents the value charged to
capital account together with any other amounts that rank
as capital items for taxation purposes during the year to
which each return related. From 1988 contributors were
asked to include the value of assets acquired as lessees
under finance leasing arrangements. The value is
inclusive of any amounts received or expected to be
received in grants and/or allowances from government
sources, statutory bodies or local authorities. Capital
expenditure during the year in respect of production
units where production had not started before the end of
the year and the value of capital goods produced for
use within the business by its own staff are
included. The value of assets acquired in taking over an
existing business is excluded. The figures include
non-deductible VAT but exclude deductible VAT. No
allowance is made for depreciation, amortisation or
obsolescence. |
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