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Table B.2: Custom design software, 1981-1996
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| 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | |
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| Domestic production1 | Carried back from 1986 on growth of selected receipts (SCS) | Industry receipts from 'custom software development' and 'contract programming' (SCS) | ||||||||||||||
| + Software royalties, received from abroad | Estimated as 28% of foreign sales receipts for custom software, % based on 1990 annual benchmark | Annual data from BOP surveys of International Transactions in Commercial Services | ||||||||||||||
| + Margins2 | Ratio of domestic production of custom-design to gross output of I/O commodities 575 (1981-85) and 636 (1986-97), of which custom-design is part, applied to margins on same commodities | |||||||||||||||
| + Custom-design imports | Equivalent to 'BOP deduction of custom-design imports' captured in merchandise imports in estimation of pre-packaged software, with reverse sign | |||||||||||||||
| + Software royalties, payments abroad | Estimated as 2.5 X custom-design imports in current and past two years, ratio based on 1990 benchmark | Annual data from BOP surveys of International Transactions in Commercial Services | ||||||||||||||
| = Total supply | ||||||||||||||||
| - Foreign sales receipts1 | Carried back from 1997 on growth of foreign revenues of computer services industry (SCS) | |||||||||||||||
| - Software royalties, received from abroad | Estimated as 28% of foreign sales receipts for custom software, % based on 1990 benchmark | Annual data from BOP surveys of International Transactions in Commercial Services | ||||||||||||||
| = Supply to domestic market | ||||||||||||||||
| - Adjustment for software to be embedded2 | Supply to domestic market allocated across industries in proportion to use of I/O commodities 575 (1981-85) & 636 (1986-97); deduction = 40% of amounts allocated to software producing/embedding industries | |||||||||||||||
| = Investment in custom-design software | ||||||||||||||||
| Of which: | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | Estimated as 5% of total custom-software investment, % based on average of 1997-98 benchmarks, plus government share of custom-software already capitalized | |||||||||||||||
| Business | Residually derived as total investment in custom-software investment minus government investment in same | |||||||||||||||
1 Survey of Computer Services (SCS).
2 I/O commodity 575 is "Software development, computer service, and rental"; I/O commodity 636 is "Professional and processing computer services".
