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Table E.2: Price indexes (1997=100), 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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| Pre-packaged | U.S. BEA pre-packaged software price index, exchange-rate adjusted, weighted by import share of supply to domestic market plus same index, unadjusted for exchange rate, weighted by domestic share of supply to domestic market | |||||||||||||||
| Custom-design | Price index constructed from weighted average of the annual % changes in the price indexes for own account software (arbitrary 75% weight) and pre-packaged software (arbitrary 25% weight) | |||||||||||||||
| Own-account | Weighted average of own-account price indexes for government and business, with respective shares in own-account investment as weights | |||||||||||||||
| Government | Weighted average of indexes for labour cost for government (68.5% weight) and other non-labour costs for own-account software (31.5% weight) | |||||||||||||||
| Business | Weighted average of indexes for labour cost for business (68.5% weight) and other non-labour costs for own-account software (31.5% weight) | |||||||||||||||
| Own-account - labour cost | ||||||||||||||||
| Government1 | Index of average hourly earnings (AHE) of government programmers/analysts; 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 benchmarks from Census, with inter/extrapolation of annuals on fixed-weighted index of AHE in government services (SEPH) | |||||||||||||||
| Business | Index of average hourly earnings (AHE) of programmers/analysts in business; 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 benchmarks from Census, with inter/extrapolation of annuals on fixed-weighted index of AHE in business services (SEPH) | |||||||||||||||
| Own-account - other non-labour costs | Implicit price index for intermediate inputs to I/O industry 202 (Computer and Related Services) | |||||||||||||||
1 Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH).
