Abstract

The existence of global value chains (GVC) poses several challenges for statisticians who are interested in the construction of official statistics. Consider the possibility to measure intra-group trade, indirect international trade and the valuation of business functions, just to name a few. Even though statistical offices have a wealth of data at their disposal, the combination of these existing data sources (if even possible), does not always render datasets that make it easy to investigate such GVC-related topics. In the Business Statistics Framework for Global Value Chains we discuss a variety of hard-to-measure GVC-topics. For many of the topics discussed, a solution for measuring them, is not yet available. For others we suggest how to measure them and take some initial steps, based on existing data. For a small selection of topics, we added additional questions to the GVC-survey in the Netherlands. In this presentation we will discuss the results of the most recent GVC-survey in the Netherlands, covering 2021-2023. Within this discussion we pay special attention to newly added questions that aim at shedding more light on GVC-topics that are difficult to measure using readily available data.