- D58 Publishing activities;
- D59T60 Audiovisual and broadcasting activities;
- D61 Telecommunications;
- D62T63 IT and other information services;
- D73 Advertising and market research;
- D90T93 Arts, entertainment, and recreation.
In order to make the results easier to understand, I converted labour hours into fulltime-equivalent labour years, assuming a full-time working week of 35 hours and 48 working weeks per year. In Germany, the minimum statutory leave is four weeks, so 1 working year = 35 × 48 hours = 1680 hours.
Table 12.2 presents a comparison of the German information industries’ output value in the years 2001–2011. Table 12.3 gives the same data, but not calculated in years, but in monetary units (€). The data show that in all analysed information industries, information tends to be sold at prices higher than values. Table 12.4 shows how much larger prices are than values. Prices tend to be between 1.3% and 47.0% higher than values. There is only one case, where the total value is higher than the total price (industry #6, 2008). The annual average differences vary between a minimum of 8.2% in 2008 and a maximum of 20.6% in 2002. The annual average price-value-difference for all information industries cumulated over the years 2001–2011 is around 13%. The price-value-difference is on average largest in the IT industry (26.3%) and lowest in the telecommunications industry (5.1%).
Table 12.5 shows the organic composition of capital – the relationship of constant to variable capital – in the German information industries in the years from 2001 until 2011. It ranges between 0.2 and 4.9. The annual average for all industries is 1.9, which means that on average constant capital tends to be almost twice as large as variable capital. The organic composition tends to be especially high in broadcasting and telecommunications and rather low in IT and information services as well as advertising and market research. This is an indication that broadcasting and telecommunications are particularly technology-intensive, whereas IT, advertising, and market research are particularly labour-intensive industries.
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