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Informatics professional services price indexes (IPSPI) are now available for 2007. The IPSPI measures changes in the total price of informatics professional services as well as changes in their labour cost and realised net multiplier components. These indexes are available at the Canada level only.
The total price index is calculated as the product of the labour cost and realized net multiplier indexes. The composition of the total price index reflects how firms structure their service contracts.
The labour cost index measures change in the prices for labour inputs used in providing informatics professional services. The index is calculated using a weighted average of changes in the wage rates and in the fees paid to contract workers whose time is charged to informatics professional services contracts.
The realized net multiplier index measures change in the profitability of informatics professional service activity. The multipliers are calculated as the ratio of operating revenue from sales of informatics professional services to the non-overhead operating expenses from contracts for these services.
Available on CANSIM: tables 329-0014, 329-0051, 329-0052 and 329-0054.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2333.
For more information, contact Client Services (613-951-3902; toll-free 1-866-230-2248; fax: 613-951-3117; prices-prix@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Vasuki Tharmarajan (613-951-9167; vasuki.tharmarajan@statcan.gc.ca), Producer Prices Division.
