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4.52. As a medium-term goal,
countries might attempt
to disaggregate sales within each industry as between
sales of goods and sales of services so as to obtain a
measure of sales of services. As mentioned in paragraph
4.45 above on the attribution of FATS variables, such a
breakdown would represent a
first step toward a product
breakdown of sales. Sales of services would include
both sales of services by enterprises that produce
services as a primary activity and sales of services by
enterprises that produce goods as a primary activity but
have secondary operations in services.
4.53. The potential usefulness
of this extension is
considerable, and countries that are able to provide this
data are encouraged to do so. It is likely that a
significant share of sales of services by affiliates is
accounted for by affiliates whose primary industry is
manufacturing or another goods producing industry. For
example, sales of computer
services might, as noted
earlier, be spread among manufacturing affiliates,
wholesale trade affiliates and computer services
affiliates. If only total sales were collected, then by
default only the sales by the
affiliates classified in
computer services would be taken as a measure of sales
of such services, resulting in a significant
understatement.
4.54. As a longer-term goal, countries are encouraged
to work toward developing
product detail on sales, on a
basis compatible with EBOPS.
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2. Employment
4.55. In a FATS context,
employment would normally
be measured as the number of persons on the payrolls of
foreign affiliates. Employment data are sometimes
converted to a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis, in which
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