Agenda and Documents

Entire Agenda

The meeting will be held as a in-person meeting from 22 to 26 September 2025. The times are given in Copenhagen Time (EDT, UTC +2).

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Daily agendas

Daily agendas including links to documents (papers and presentations)

  1. Monday, September 22nd
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    08:30-09:00 Registration — refreshments
    09:00-09:30 Welcoming Remarks — Statistics Denmark
    09:30-10:30 Opening Remarks & Meeting Agenda Overview — Voorburg Group co-chairs: Marcus Fridén (Sweden) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)
    Participant introductions — All
    10:30-11:00 Network Break
    11:00-11:30 Session: China's practices and experience in the compilation of China's Index of Service Production and SPPI — Li Na (China)
    11:30-12:00 Session: Industry Paper
    ISIC 78 Employment Activities (NAICS 5613) — Ariel Juarez (Mexico)
    12:00-13:15 Lunch break
    13:15-13:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 1)
    Guidelines document on approximations of deflators when SPPIs are not available Session leader — Dorothee Blang (Germany)
    TBD (UK), TBD (Israel)
    13:45-14:15 Session: Industry Paper
    Price indexes for Post Secondary Education — Melanie Santiago (US BLS)
    14:15-14:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 2)
    Volume indicator of trade in services statistics — David Brackfield (OECD)
    14:45-15:15 Network break
    15:15-15:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 3)
    Measuring outsourcing of services — Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
    15:45-16:15 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 4)
    A new index in the area of Commerce — Angela Hernandez Santacoloma (Switzerland)
  2. Tuesday, September 23rd
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    09:00-10:30 Session: Industry Paper
    ISIC 829 Business Support Service Activities Not Elsewhere Classified
    Session leader — Christian Puchter (Austria)
    Output: Mariah Nilsson (Sweden), Josipa Kalčić Ivanić (Croatia), TBD
    SPPI: Christian Stock (Austria), Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland), TBD, TBD (France)
    Discussant: TBD
    10:30-11:00 Network break
    11:00-11:30 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 5)
    Estimating age-related depreciation in office rents — Mr. Kimiaki Shinozaki (Bank of Japan)
    11:30-12:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 6)
    How does the new 2025 SNA impact the Service industries? — Peter van de Ven (Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA) )
    12:00-13:15 Lunch break
    13:15-14:15 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 7)
    Implementing a data driven model for automated dynamic outlier detection during data validation — Melanie Santiago (US BLS)

    Python dashboard for outlier detection using robust variance estimation — Trym Langballe (Norway)
    14:15-14:45 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 8)
    Producing PPIs using Reproducible Analytical Pipelines — Xin Ha (Canada)
    14:45-15:30 Network break
    15:30-16:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 9)
    How admin data are used to derive the output measurement for short term accommodation — Mathieu Thomassin (Canada), Maja Dozet (Croatia)
    15:30-16:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 10) Development of Final Demand-Intermediate Demand Price Indices — Xin Ha (Canada)
  3. Wednesday, September 24th
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    09:00-9:30 Group discussion: Feedback on newsletter and communication between meetings
    9:30-10:00 Host Presentation TBD (Denmark)
    10:00-10:30 Network break
    10:30-11:45 Host Presentation TBD (Denmark)
    11:45- Lunch and country day
  4. Thursday, September 25th
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    08:30-9:30 Bureau meeting — VG Bureau members only
    9:30-10:00 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 11)
    Deflating annual output data in SBS — Mariah Nilsson/Sebastian Rask (Sweden)
    10:00-10:30 Session: Cross cutting topic (part 12)
    Introducing administrative data within the survey on turnover in services — Mariagrazia Moschetta (Italy)
    10:30-11:00 Network break
    11:00-11:30 Session: Industry Paper
    Use of non-public data sources for compiling SPPI for ISIC 491 Passenger rail transport and 493 Other passenger land transport — Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
    11:30-12:00 Session: Updated Sector Paper
    ISIC 62 Computer Programming — TBD (Israel), Stefan Wiethoff (Germany), TBD (USBLS, on classifications)
    12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
    13:15-14:30 Poster Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 13)
    Changes in the Service industries in upcoming classification revisions, ISIC, NACE, CPC, ATECO, COICOP etc. — TBD (Italy), TBD, TBD
    14:30-15:00 Network break
    15:00-15:30 Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 14)
    New handbook for measuring marketing assets in the National Accounts — Andrew Baer (IMF)
    15:30-16:00 Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 15)
    Prototype chatbot — Yap Wei Ni/Justin Tai (Singapore)
    16:00-17:00 Bureau meeting — VG Bureau members only
  5. Friday, September 26th
    Meetings
    Time (EDT, UTC‑4) Item
    9:00-10:15 Session: 2026 meeting plan
    Voorburg Group co-chairs: Marcus Fridén (Sweden) /Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)
    VG Governance and Bureau Representation
    Future Agenda
    Assignment of Sector Papers
    Designation of Industries and Assignments for VG 2026
    Designation of Papers on Cross-cutting topics for VG 2026
    10:15-10:45 Network break
    10:45-12:00 Conclude VG 2026 meeting plan
    Designation of Assignments for VG 2026
    Meeting Arrangements for Next Year
    Closing Remarks

Notes to presenters

Presentations

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