Economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports: Report 2002

Comment: This is why there is a two-stage process:• The approach chosen in chapter 3 (study of variables for all ports) when calculating indirect effects is toconsider temporary port employment as a separate activity (belonging to SUT 74) since the algorithm usedis based on data from the national accounts in which the division of employment is given by SUT 72 , notincluding heading 9097 and its corollary heading 617 relating to the costs incurred. This is the first stage ofpresentation of findings, in overall form;• Then, in order to allocate activities by port and by branch (chapter 4), the employment of temporary staffinvolved in the « client » companies (primarily from SUT 63, that is, cargo handling) of the four abovementionedemployers is distributed by using headings 9097 and 617 in order to show the real employmentsituation among companies actually using such staff as objectively as possible.For companies established in more than one location, employment is allocated by subsidiary according to NAIdata on employment within the different centres of operations (reference: NSI code). As this is the onlyinformation enabling an allocation to be made at the level of these companies, VA and investment are alsoallocated according to the same procedure.• Public companiesThe information is provided by the different bodies or companies in question by means of surveys.4.3 Investment at current prices• Private companiesThe basic rule consists of using heading 8169 of the annual accounts: tangible fixed assets acquired during thecourse of the financial year (including fixed assets produced).However, if the company has carried out any takeovers (in other words, if there are amounts in heading 829), weuse the NAI data are used, which have been corrected to exclude any amounts relating to possible takeovers.Unlike the national accounts method, however, no additional corrections are made for the « disinvestments »noted annually.For companies established in more than one location, total investment is allocated in the same manner as VA andemployment (reference: NSI code).• Public companiesThe information is provided by the different bodies or companies in question by means of surveys.4.4 The social balance sheetThe study presents a series of data relating to the social balance sheet for 2002. A comparison has also beenmade with 2000 and 2001. While the previous edition of the study restricted its analysis of the social balancesheet to large companies that were representative of port activity, in this study all companies for which sufficientsocial balance sheet data are available for the years 2000 to 2002 have been analysed in this section. A constantsample is analysed and the results enable us to carry out comparisons with findings shown in the Social BalanceSheet for the whole economy 73 . This relates among others to those filing their annual accounts based on the fullpresentation.7273Supply & Use Table. This designation also enables the branches included in these tables, and which correspond to NACE-Bel precision level 2 codes, to be described in abbreviated form.Social Balance Sheet 2002 (NBB, Economic Review 2003/4).78 NBB WORKING PAPER No.56 - JUNE 2004