Registration - refreshments

Welcome Remarks - Statistics Netherlands

Opening Remarks & Meeting Agenda Overview – Voorburg Group co-chairs: Rohan Draper (Denmark) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)

Participant introductions – All

Network Break

Session: Sector and issues papers

• ISIC 829 - Business Support Service Activities Not Elsewhere Classified
  Christian Puchter (Austria) - PPT

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 1)

• Progress on quality adjusting office rents
  Yasufumi Genma (Japan) - PPT

Lunch break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 2)

• The New System of Business Statistics - SysdU
  Murad Hajiyev  (Germany) - PPT

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 3)

• Approximations of deflators when SPPIs are not available: focus on approximations used by SPPI producers to supplement their surveys.
  Dorothee Blang (Germany) - PPT

Network break 

Session: Industry Paper ISIC 60 television broadcasting
Session leader / Discussant: Marcus Friden (Sweden)

• Output and Classification: television broadcasting vs streaming, significant classification changes
  Marcus Friden (Sweden) - PPT
• SPPI 
  Jiri Sulc (Czech Republic) - PPT
• SPPO 
  Melanie Santiago (United States)  - PPT

Session: Strategic Plan 2027 - 2031
Rohan Draper (Statistics Denmark)
Melanie Santiago (United States)

Group photo + cocktail reception

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 5 – Use of Alternative data in section G)
Session leader: Ulla Virtanen (Finland) - PPT

• Retail trade: practical experience in the use of corporate data (BLS) 
  Katie Frawley  (United States) - PPT
• The use of electronic invoicing data for the retail sector
  Francesca Tuzi (Italia) - PPT
• Developing new retail trade indicators using bank card data: Evidence from Malta
  Sam Sacco (Malta) - PPT
• Scanner data use in Statistics Canada's Retail Trade Program
  Mathieu Thomassin (Canada) - PPT

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 6)

• Potential revision of the Distributive Trade Statistics Guidelines 
  Markie Muryawan (UN) - PPT

Lunch break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 7)

• BLS Expanding the publication structure for the PPI’s for Railroad Transportation using administrative data
  Melanie Santiago (United States) - PPT

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 8)

• Trade in Service Deflators
  Rhys Humphries (UK) - PPT

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 9)
Session leader: Mariagrazia Moschetta (Italia) - PPT

• Methods for adjusting the quarterly SPPI to the needs of the monthly ISP 
• Table
  Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland) - PPT
• How to use quarterly deflators to calculate monthly ISP
  Josipa Kalcic Ivanic (Croatia)

Walk in with coffee and tea

Short turn statistics on Wholesale trade services G46
Dennis Matthijs 

Distortions in price measurement due to productivity growth
Dennis Matthijs & Pelle Albers

Network Break

A vision for a generic system for all economic statistics
Arjan van Loon

HMTS: A hedonic multilateral approach for dynamic, low-volume price indices
Farley Ishaak - PPT

Lunch to go

Bus travel to The Hague City Centre

Canal Cruise with 'De Ooievaart' through The Hague

Free time and travel to Escher in The Palace

Tour at museum Escher in The Palace
Address: Lange Voorhout 74, 2514 EH The Hague

Free time

Dinner at restaurant Luden Den Haag
Address: Plein 6-7, 2511 CR  The Hague

Bureau meeting – VG Bureau members only

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 10)
Session leader / Discussant: Mathieu Thomassin (Canada)

• SIC 77.4 Leasing of intellectual property – Emmanuel Caicedo (France) - PPT

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 11)

• R&D and Intellectual property SPPI
  Yuka Kiho (Japan) - PPT

Network break

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 12)

• Usage of hourly-rate method for SPPI in labor intensive sectors and quality adjustment consideration
  Eylul Polat (Turkey)  - PPT

Session: Industry Paper
Session leader / discussant: Ariel Juarez Morales (Mexico) - PPT

• SPPI ISIC 7911 travel agency activities
  Maja Dozet (Croatia) - PPT
• SPPI for Travel agency and tour operator activities
  Eveli Sokman (Estonia) - PPT
• Beata Cebula
  Beata Cebula (Poland) - PPT

Lunch break

Session: Cross-cutting Topic (13)– Practical experience in using modern production systems. Poster session
Session leader: Rohan Draper (Denmark)

• Streamlining methods, pipelines and IT tooling for price statistics at Statistics Netherlands
  Pelle Albers (Netherlands)  - 
• Use of the piar R-package in calculating price indexes in Statistical production
  Xin Ha (Canada)
• Reusing CPI Price Data to Compile an Experimental Health Services PPI: Singapore’s Experience  
  Chan Zi Qi (Singapore)  

Network break

Group report out - poster session

Session: Cross-cutting Topic (14) 

• Using Gen AI to calculate price indexes 
  Xin Ha (Canada) - PPT

Bureau meeting - VG Bureau members only

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 15)
PPI Manual Update – IMF (Andrew Baer) - PPT

Session: Cross cutting topic (part 16)

• IBGE's experience in measuring the service sector
  Luiz Andrés Ribeiro Paixão (Brazil) - PPT

Network break

Session: 2026 meeting plan
Voorburg Group co-chairs: Rohan Draper (Denmark) / 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
• Conclude VG 2026 meeting plan
• Designation of Assignments for VG 2026
• Meeting Arrangements for Next Year
• Closing Remarks