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Explanatory Notes.
Total Production of the Electrical Industry in Millions of Reichsmarks.
1013
1925
Uniform Price Basis
| Alteration
in i
| : Coefficient
Production :
of Price
1925 :
increased
compared | EN
| in Gold
to 1913 fy .
| 1913 ==
(cf. 4a and 5
9b)
|
1 15
Uniform Price Basis
Unit
Iractor
=11,2
compared
to 1913
Countrv
Production | Unit
Faktor
1
| Proportion
Production | of total
Production
Millions |
of RM | oo
Aa
Number |
: Export
of Workers Po
Production
Production Proportion
Sy of total
Present Value [pre-war Value | Production
me ra
5 Millions of RM
9a | 9b
Number
E
t of hon Xpott
Millions
of RM
in | Millions
Thousands | of RM
3 6
| Mitions
of RM
, in | Millions
o | Thousands of RM
9c 10 11
X
=
8
Germany» «.. vv vivievie
United States of America,
Canada . ...ccnies
Great Britain... +...
France, cv i,
Ansiria Wy Los
Switzerland... ..
Ttaly ov eid
Japan: vii en
Sweden, oo. nl agra
Czecho-Slovakia??) . . , .
Russia, 0.00 Lh ahi,
Other countries ®) . . ..
Total. , ..
1.300 4)
1400 4)
70 7)
600 19)
150 12)
120 19)
45 2)
45 21)
90 22)
40 %)
20 28)
100 %)
130 33)
1,0 1300 |
1,3 1078
1,3 54
1,0 600
150
34,9
Te
1,4
16,0
10
140%) | 3306
1184) 12,4
59) 0,3
75 19) 156,2
30 19) 30,2
10,4
2100 2)
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170 9)
| 1.400 19)
420 1)
113 18)
110 21)
150 21)
360 23)
80 26)
60 28)
37 31)
270 34)
|
1,0 2100 |
1,57 4330 |
1,57 | 108
1,35 | 1037 -
n.95 442
‘0 113
92
167
| 257
| 62
50
11
295
233 | 1909)
48,1 290 6)
1,2 89)
11,5 135 11)
4,9 BY |
1,3 23 13)
n 1,0 — *H)
139 1,9 = SE)
214 2,9 25 21)
59 el 0,7 7 2)
42 0,6 — *¥)
9 0,1 31)
| 188 2,5 *%)
SO0L | 7406 100
356,5 1,35 | 1,2
353,2 335 | 148
12,7 | 1,67 | 1,45
352,2 1,44 1,62
78,3 2,45 1,14
434,7 0,78 1,2
47,6 1,71 1,44
12,2 3,08 1,08
11 Wl sw 1,3
I
201 || 1,30 1,56
so Ly 1,44
0,1 3,5
1,45 1,44
er fy
1 20
1 6
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09
1,4
1,3
1,2
5,5
1.2
1,3
1,0
1,0
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40
20
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1,1
0,5
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4110
3734
100
456
638.8
12 070
829 | 1303.2
*) Estimated Total 25000. — **) Estimated Total 70000 — +) Weighted average value. See explanatory notes in the margin.
!) Siemens-Zeitschrift 1921 p. 302,
?) Private estimate.
%) Private estimate based on numbers of
employed persons reported to the Zentralverband
der deutschen elektrotechnischen Industrie. The
number of officials deducted from the total was
estimated on the basis of a definite percentage
ratio of staff to workmen,
4) Refers to 1914; Census of Manufactures 1923.
®) Latest American estimate (of Sept. 1926).
Supported by particulars in New. York Times of
27. Sept. 1926.
%) Estimated from the figures for production
and numbers of workers given in the Official Census
of 1923.
7) Refers to 1915; Canada Year-Book 1916/17
Pp. 292.
8) Refers to 1915; Canada Year-Book 1916/17
p. 292. Only the number of employed is given.
The number of workmen is calculated on the basis
of the percentage of workers to staff as given in
the same publication for 1021 and 1022
9 Refers to 1922; Canada Year-Book 1924
P. 407.
19) According to data furnished by the Economic
and Statistical Dept. of the British Electrical and
Allied Manufacturers’ Association (Sept. 1926).
1) Ministry of Labour Gazette 1926 No. I
p. 22 and 23. The officials, some of which are
included in the figures, given in the above
publication, are deducted on the basis of a definite
percentage ratio of staff to workmen.
12) Rapport Général sur 1'Industrie [Francaise
(Paris 1919).
13) Estimated.
4) Figures relating to production for 1924 as
given by Beama: The Electrical Industry in France
(London 1925, Pp. 39) transmuted for 1925, in
accordance with the data available for 1925, of
numbers of workmen (75000 according to the
Publication of the Union des Syndicats de 1'Elec-
tricité, Paris 1926, p. 1275).
15) Refers to the present territory (German-
Anstria)
16) Calculated on the basis of data of the Verband
der Elektrizitats-Industrie Oesterreichs, Vienna.
17) Estimated.
18) Refers to 1924; according to data of the
Verband der Elektrizitats - Industrie Oesterreichs,
Vienna.
19) Refers to 1924; Wirtsche ftstatistisches
Jahrbuch, Vienna 1925.
20) Siemens-Zeitschrift 1921 p. 302.
21) Private Estimate.
22) Siemens-Zeitschrift 1921 p. 302.
23) Refers to 1924; Japan Year-Book 1926 p. 502.
2) Refers to 1924; estimated from the number
of workers given in the Statistics of Agriculture,
Industry and Commerce (Tokyo 1925 p. 107) for
the year 1923 (23870), and the figures relating
to production for 1923 and 1924 in Japan Year-Book.
25) Sveriges Offiziella Statistik (Industri) 1913.
26) Refers to 1924; Sveriges Offiziella Statistik
(Industii) 1924.
27) Refers to present territorv.
28) Private Estimate.
29) Refers to present territory of European
Russia.
39) Commercial Year-Book of the Soviet Union
1925.
31) Commercial Year-Book of the Soviet Union.
Estimate 1924/25.
Belgium . . . . 35 Millions of RM,
Denmark. . . . 13 + sre
0) Netherlands . . 25 »» ya
Norway . .. =... 10 ve ade
| Spain... i.e. ig0nc sy, v9
Hungary *... 25 » 1 ay iy
130 Millions of RM.
33) Siemens-Zeitschrift 1921 p. 302.
34) Estimated with the addition of the other
countries which in the meantime have developed
small electrical industries, the individual pro-
duction of which is less than that of the countries
mentioned under 22
*) Hungary's Trade and Industry in the Year
1024 (Budapest 1025) D. 118
I. Method employed in the Table.
Owing to the huge number of different products in the
electrical industry it is impossible to state the total output
quantitatively, and therefore only values have been entered
in the lists. = These values again are not comparable with
one another, as they are based on the home prices of the
various producing countries, and for many reasons the
price basis varies very considerably in different countries.
In the accompanying table an attempt has been made
to obtain, from the available figures relating to production
values, a comparison of actual quantities.
To enable such a comparison to be made, the values have
been reduced to a common price basis — in the present case,
+he German
11. Explanation of the various columns.
Columns 2 and 7 contain production values, on the
basis of the home prices in the various countries.
Columns 3 and 8 show the factor used to reduce the
values to a common price basis, in order to enable the com-
parison of quantities to be made. This unit factor ex-
presses the relation between the home market prices of
the different countries, on the basis of which the com-
parative Lony values in column 4a and 9a are cal-
culated. The German price basis is taken as 1 for both
periods concerned, as this is the level from which the prices
in the other countries are calculated. As regards the unit
factors in column 8 for 1925, the increase in prices, as com-
pared with 1913, is not taken into consideration. This
is however shown in column 13. (For details see that
column.)
In columns 4a and 9a the values given in columns 2
and 7 are divided by the factors given in columns 3 and 8,
and in this way they are reduced to a common basis. The
figures thus arrived at permit of a comparison of the share
of the various countries in the total production, and this
is given as a percentage in columns 4b and 9c.
. Columns 6 and 11 show the export values in millions
of marks, ascertained from official statistics.
Column gb (“Pre-war values’) shows the production
values in g a converted into pre-war value through dividing
by the increase factor 1,2 as compared with 1913, so as
to show in column 12 the comparison between the pro-
duction in 1913 and 1925, both in respect of the individual
countries, and also as regards the totals. The unit factor
mentioned in column 8 is 1,2 as compared to 1913. The
German price level is thus taken as being on an average
20 9% above pre-war basis. This figure takes into con-
sideration the increase in efficiency, weight and unit com-
pared, due to technical Progress.
Column 13 shows the average factor of increase in
the price of electrical goods as compared to 1913. This
factor is calculated by multiplying the unit factor for
1925 by the increase factor of 1,2, and dividing the product
by the unit factor for 1913. The mean value of
1,38, which represents the average increase in price of
the world’s production, is not the arithmetic
mean of the price increase factors of the different coun-
tries, but is a weighted average value,
which takes into consideration the percentage of total
production falling to the share of each country.
Example: As the prices in the United States of
America in 1913 were, on an average, I,3 times the German
prices, the prices in U.S. A. for electrical goods have not
increased by 1,57 x 1,2 = 1,9 times. but only by
T 1,7
rd = 1,45.
Columns 5 and 10 show the number of workers in
thousands. The figures include manual workers only, not
technical or clerical staff. In cases where only figures of
total numbers employed were available, a definite per-
centage ratio of staff fo manual workers has been assumed.
See remarks in notes regarding sources of information at
the foot of the table.
