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The 2009 Report on Test Equipment for Testing Electrical, Radio and Communication Circuits, and Motors: World Market Segmentation by City
ICON Group International, May 2009, Pages: 346
Market Potential Estimation Methodology
Overview
This study covers the world outlook for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors across more than 2000 cities. For the year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the city in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the city is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.
This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the cities of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E. for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world’s cities. In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business.
What is Latent Demand and the P.I.E.?
The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is the notion of an economic quantity that a target population or market requires under different assumptions of price, quality, and distribution, among other factors. Latent demand, therefore, is commonly defined by economists as the industry earnings of a market when that market becomes accessible and attractive to serve by competing firms. It is a measure, therefore, of potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) or total revenues (not profit) if a market is served in an efficient manner. It is typically expressed as the total revenues potentially extracted by firms. The “market” is defined at a given level in the value chain. There can be latent demand at the retail level, at the wholesale level, the manufacturing level, and the raw materials level (the P.I.E. of higher levels of the value chain being always smaller than the P.I.E. of levels at lower levels of the same value chain, assuming all levels maintain minimum profitability).
The latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors is not actual or historic sales. Nor is latent demand future sales. In fact, latent demand can be lower either lower or higher than actual sales if a market is inefficient (i.e., not representative of relatively competitive levels). Inefficiencies arise from a number of factors, including the lack of international openness, cultural barriers to consumption, regulations, and cartel-like behavior on the part of firms. In general, however, latent demand is typically larger than actual sales in a city market.
Another reason why sales do not equate to latent demand is exchange rates. In this report, all figures assume the long-run efficiency of currency markets. Figures, therefore, equate values based on purchasing power parities across countries. Short-run distortions in the value of the dollar, therefore, do not figure into the estimates. Purchasing power parity estimates of country income were collected from official sources, and extrapolated using standard econometric models. The report uses the dollar as the currency of comparison, but not as a measure of transaction volume. The units used in this report are: US $ mln.
For reasons discussed later, this report does not consider the notion of “unit quantities”, only total latent revenues (i.e., a calculation of price times quantity is never made, though one is implied). The units used in this report are U.S. dollars not adjusted for inflation (i.e., the figures incorporate inflationary trends) and not adjusted for future dynamics in exchange rates (i.e., the figures reflect average exchange rates over recent history). If inflation rates or exchange rates vary in a substantial way compared to recent experience, actually sales can also exceed latent demand (when expressed in U.S. dollars, not adjusted for inflation). On the other hand, latent demand can be typically higher than actual sales as there are often distribution inefficiencies that reduce actual sales below the level of latent demand.
As mentioned earlier, this study is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. If fact, all the current products or services on the market can cease to exist in their present form (i.e., at a brand-, R&D specification, or corporate-image level) and all the players can be replaced by other firms (i.e., via exits, entries, mergers, bankruptcies, etc.), and there will still be an international latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors at the aggregate level. Product and service offering details, and the actual identity of the players involved, while important for certain issues, are relatively unimportant for estimates of latent demand.
The Methodology
In order to estimate the latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors on a city-by-city basis, I used a multi-stage approach. Before applying the approach, one needs a basic theory from which such estimates are created. In this case, I heavily rely on the use of certain basic economic assumptions. In particular, there is an assumption governing the shape and type of aggregate latent demand functions. Latent demand functions relate the income of a country, city, state, household, or individual to realized consumption. Latent demand (often realized as consumption when an industry is efficient), at any level of the value chain, takes place if an equilibrium in realized. For firms to serve a market, they must perceive a latent demand and be able to serve that demand at a minimal return. The single most important variable determining consumption, assuming latent demand exists, is income (or other financial resources at higher levels of the value chain). Other factors that can pivot or shape demand curves include external or exogenous shocks (i.e., business cycles), and or changes in utility for the product in question.
Ignoring, for the moment, exogenous shocks and variations in utility across countries, the aggregate relation between income and consumption has been a central theme in economics. The figure below concisely summarizes one aspect of problem. In the 1930s, John Meynard Keynes conjectured that as incomes rise, the average propensity to consume would fall. The average propensity to consume is the level of consumption divided by the level of income, or the slope of the line from the origin to the consumption function. He estimated this relationship empirically and found it to be true in the short-run (mostly based on cross-sectional data). The higher the income, the lower the average propensity to consume. This type of consumption function is labeled 'A' in the figure below (note the rather flat slope of the curve). In the 1940s, another macroeconomist, Simon Kuznets, estimated long-run consumption functions which indicated that the marginal propensity to consume was rather constant (using time series data across countries). This type of consumption function is show as 'B' in the figure below (note the higher slope and zero-zero intercept). The average propensity to consume is constant.
Is it declining or is it constant? A number of other economists, notably Franco Modigliani and Milton Friedman, in the 1950s (and Irving Fisher earlier), explained why the two functions were different using various assumptions on intertemporal budget constraints, savings, and wealth. The shorter the time horizon, the more consumption can depend on wealth (earned in previous years) and business cycles. In the long-run, however, the propensity to consume is more constant. Similarly, in the long run, households, industries or countries with no income eventually have no consumption (wealth is depleted). While the debate surrounding beliefs about how income and consumption are related and interesting, in this study a very particular school of thought is adopted. In particular, we are considering the latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors across some 230 countries. The smallest have fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. I assume that all of these counties fall along a 'long-run' aggregate consumption function. This long-run function applies despite some of these countries having wealth, current income dominates the latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors. So, latent demand in the long-run has a zero intercept. However, I allow firms to have different propensities to consume (including being on consumption functions with differing slopes, which can account for differences in industrial organization, and end-user preferences).
Given this overriding philosophy, I will now describe the methodology used to create the latent demand estimates for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors. Since ICON Group has asked me to apply this methodology to a large number of categories, the rather academic discussion below is general and can be applied to a wide variety of categories, not just test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors.
Step 1. Product Definition and Data Collection
Any study of latent demand across countries requires that some standard be established to define “efficiently served”. Having implemented various alternatives and matched these with market outcomes, I have found that the optimal approach is to assume that certain key countries or cities are more likely to be at or near efficiency than others. These are given greater weight than others in the estimation of latent demand compared to others for which no known data are available. Of the many alternatives, I have found the assumption that the world’s highest aggregate income and highest income-per-capita markets reflect the best standards for “efficiency”. High aggregate income alone is not sufficient (i.e., China has high aggregate income, but low income per capita and can not assumed to be efficient). Aggregate income can be operationalized in a number of ways, including gross domestic product (for industrial categories), or total disposable income (for household categories; population times average income per capita, or number of households times average household income per capita). Brunei, Nauru, Kuwait, and Lichtenstein are examples of countries with high income per capita, but not assumed to be efficient, given low aggregate level of income (or gross domestic product); these countries have, however, high incomes per capita but may not benefit from the efficiencies derived from economies of scale associated with large economies. Only countries with high income per capita and large aggregate income are assumed efficient. This greatly restricts the pool of countries to those in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), like the United States, or the United Kingdom (which were earlier than other large OECD economies to liberalize their markets).
The selection of countries is further reduced by the fact that not all countries in the OECD report industry revenues at the category level. Countries that typically have ample data at the aggregate level that meet the efficiency criteria include the United States, the United Kingdom and in some cases France and Germany.
Latent demand is therefore estimated using data collected for relatively efficient markets from independent data sources (e.g. Euromonitor, Mintel, Thomson Financial Services, the U.S. Industrial Outlook, the World Resources Institute, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, various agencies from the United Nations, industry trade associations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank). Depending on original data sources used, the definition of “test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors” is established. In the case of this report, the data were reported at the aggregate level, with no further breakdown or definition. In other words, any potential product or service that might be incorporated within test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors falls under this category. Public sources rarely report data at the disaggregated level in order to protect private information from individual firms that might dominate a specific product-market. These sources will therefore aggregate across components of a category and report only the aggregate to the public. While private data are certainly available, this report only relies on public data at the aggregate level without reliance on the summation of various category components. In other words, this report does not aggregate a number of components to arrive at the “whole”. Rather, it starts with the “whole”, and estimates the whole for all cities and the world at large (without needing to know the specific parts that went into the whole in the first place).
Given this caveat, this study covers “test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors” as defined by the North American Industrial Classification system or NAICS (pronounced “nakes”). For a complete definition of test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors, please refer to the Web site at http://www.icongrouponline.com/codes/NAICS.html. The NAICS code for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors is 3345153. It is for this definition of test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors that the aggregate latent demand estimates are derived. “Test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors” is specifically defined as follows:
3345153
Test equipment for testing electrical, radio & communication circuits, & motors
33451530
Test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors, except portable instrument transformers
3345153000
Test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors, except portable instrument transformers
3345153001
Digital electronic, voltage, current, and resistance measuring equipment, excluding multimeters
3345153003
Analog electronic, voltage, current, and resistance measuring equipment, excluding multimeters
3345153005
Electrical voltage, current, and resistance measuring equipment, excluding panel meters
3345153007
Electronic multimeters, digital and analog
3345153009
Electrical multimeters
3345153011
Electronic analog power and energy measuring equipment
3345153013
Electronic digital power and energy measuring equipment
3345153015
Electrical power and energy measuring equipment, excluding electrical integrating instruments sold separately
3345153017
Universal frequency counters and timers with interval measuring capability
3345153019
All other frequency counters
3345153021
Frequency meters
3345153023
All other frequency counters and timers
3345153025
Waveform measuring or analyzing oscilloscopes and plug~in accessories
3345153027
Waveform spectrum analyzers
3345153029
All other waveform measuring or analyzing equipment
3345153031
Audio signal generating equipment
3345153033
RF signal generating equipment, over 20kc to 890 megacycles
3345153035
Microwave signal generating equipment, 890 megacycles and above
3345153037
Electronic field strength and intensity measuring equipment, including RFI measuring equipment
3345153039
Electrical field strength and intensity measuring equipment, including RFI measuring equipment
3345153043
Electronic impedance and related measuring equipment
3345153045
Standing wave measuring equipment
3345153047
Electronic X~Y plotters (recorders)
3345153049
Combination or group automatic test and measuring equipment
3345153051
Electron tube test sets
3345153053
Semiconductor component memory test sets
3345153055
Semiconductor component linear test sets
3345153057
Semiconductor component microprocessor test sets
3345153059
All other semiconductor component test equipment
3345153061
Circuit board loaded test equipment
3345153063
All other component test sets for automatic test and measuring equipment
3345153065
Equipment and subassembly test and measuring equipment
3345153067
Electronic standards and calibration equipment for test measuring equipment
3345153069
Electrical standards and calibration equipment for test measuring equipment
3345153071
Portable analyzers for testing characteristics of internal~combustion engines, excluding aircraft
3345153073
All other analyzers for testing characteristics of internal~combustion engines, excluding aircraft
3345153075
Communication network analyzers
3345153077
Communication cable backplane and other continuity testers
3345153079
Fiber optics (OTDR, optical S~N meters) communications test equipment, nec
3345153081
All other communications test, monitoring, and control equipment, excluding microwave
3345153083
Microwave communications test equipment, nec, 1,300 MHZ and above
3345153085
Logic analyzers, similar logic state, timing, and signature analyzers
3345153087
Microprocessor development systems
3345153089
Pulse, function, data generators, and similar metered frequency synthesizers
3345153091
Other field service test and measurement equipment, logic probes, clips, and pulsers
3345153093
All other measuring and checking instruments for testing electrical, radio, and communication circuits and motors
3345153095
All other analyzing instruments for checking electrical quantities
3345153097
Parts and components for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits and motors (sold separately)
33451531
Automatic test and measurement equipment
3345153100
Test equipment for testing electrical, radio, and communication circuits, and motors (except portable instrument transformers)
3345153101
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, voltage, current, and resistance measuring equipment (excluding multimeters), electronic, digital
3345153103
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, voltage, current, and resistance measuring equipment (excluding multimeters), electronic, analog
3345153105
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, voltage, current, and resistance measuring equipment (excluding multimeters), electrical (excluding panel meters)
3345153107
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, multimeters, electronic, digital and analog
3345153109
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, multimeters, electrical
334515311
Combination and/or group test sets
3345153114
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, power and energy measuring equipment, electronic, digital and analog
3345153115
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, power and energy measuring equipment, electrical
3345153118
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, frequency counters, timers, and other frequency and time measuring equipment (excluding standards)
334515312
Semiconductor component test equipment
3345153126
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, waveform measuring and/or analyzing equipment (including oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers)
334515313
Other automatic test and measurement equipment
3345153131
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, signal generating equipment, audio
3345153133
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, signal generating equipment, RF (over 20 kc to 890 megacycles)
3345153135
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, signal generating equipment, microwave (890 megacycles and above)
3345153137
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, field strength and intensity measuring equipment (including RFI measuring equipment), electronic
3345153139
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, field strength and intensity measuring equipment (including RFI measuring equipment), electrical
3345153143
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, impedance and standing wave ratio measuring equipment (transfer function measuring equipment), electronic
3345153149
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, combination and/or group test sets
3345153151
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, electron tube test equipment
3345153153
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, semiconductor component test equipment, memory
3345153155
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, semiconductor component test equipment, linear
3345153157
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, semiconductor component test equipment, microprocessor
3345153159
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, semiconductor component test equipment, other
3345153161
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, circuit board loaded test equipment
3345153163
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, component part test sets, other
3345153165
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, automatic test and measuring equipment, all other equipment and subassembly test equipment (disc drive testers, etc.)
3345153168
Standards and calibration equipment for test measuring equipment, including laboratory types (metered bench_top, rack_mountable, or plug_in equipment)
3345153171
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, analyzers for testing characteristics of internal_combustion engines (excluding aircraft), portable
3345153173
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, analyzers for testing characteristics of internal_combustion engines (excluding aircraft), other
3345153175
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, all other communications test equipment, network analyzers
3345153177
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, all other communications test equipment, cable backplane and other continuity testers
3345153179
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, all other communications test equipment, fiber optics test equipment (OTDR, optical S/N meters, etc.)
3345153181
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, all other communications test equipment, other (excluding microwave)
3345153183
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, all other communications test equipment, all other microwave test equipment (1300 MHZ and above)
3345153185
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, logic analyzers and similar logic state, timing, and signature analyzers
3345153187
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, microprocessor development systems
3345153189
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, pulse, function, and data generators and similar metered frequency synthesizers
3345153191
Test equipment for electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors, other field service test and measurement equipment, logic probes, clips, and pulsers
3345153193
Other measuring and checking instruments for test equipment for testing electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors
3345153195
Other analyzing instruments for checking electrical quantities
3345153197
Parts and components for test equipment for testing electrical and radio and communication circuits and motors (sold separately)
33451532
Communications test equipment
33451533
Other test equipment for electric circuits and motors, including parts
Step 2. Filtering and Smoothing
Based on the aggregate view of test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors as defined above, data were then collected for as many similar countries and cities as possible for that same definition, at the same level of the value chain. This generates a convenience sample from which comparable figures are available. If the series in question do not reflect the same accounting period, then adjustments are made. In order to eliminate short-term effects of business cycles, the series are smoothed using an 2 year moving average weighting scheme (longer weighting schemes do not substantially change the results). If data are available for a country, but these reflect short-run aberrations due to exogenous shocks (such as would be the case of beef sales in a country stricken with foot and mouth disease), these observations were dropped or 'filtered' from the analysis.
Step 3. Filling in Missing Values
In some cases, data are available for countries or cities on a sporadic basis. In other cases, data may be available for only one year. From a Bayesian perspective, these observations should be given greatest weight in estimating missing years. Assuming that other factors are held constant, the missing years are extrapolated using changes and growth in aggregate national income. Based on the overriding philosophy of a long-run consumption function (defined earlier), cities which have missing data for any given year, are estimated based on historical dynamics of aggregate income for that country.
Step 4. Varying Parameter, Non-linear Estimation
Given the data available from the first three steps, the latent demand is estimated using a “varying-parameter cross-sectionally pooled time series model”. Simply stated, the effect of income on latent demand is assumed to be constant across cities unless there is empirical evidence to suggest that this effect varies (i.e., the slope of the income effect is not necessarily same for all countries). This assumption applies across cities along the aggregate consumption function, but also over time (i.e., not all cities are perceived to have the same income growth prospects over time and this effect can vary from city to city as well). Another way of looking at this is to say that latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors is more likely to be similar across cities that have similar characteristics in terms of economic development (i.e., African cities will have similar latent demand structures controlling for the income variation across the pool of African cities).
This approach is useful across cities for which some notion of non-linearity exists in the aggregate consumption function. For some categories, however, the reader must realize that the numbers will reflect a city’s contribution to global latent demand and may never be realized in the form of local sales. For certain category combinations this will result in what at first glance will be odd results. For example, the latent demand for the category “space vehicles” will exist for cities in “Togo” even though they have no space program. The assumption is that if the economies in these countries did not exist, the world aggregate for these categories would be lower. The share attributed to these cities is based on a proportion of their income (however small) being used to consume the category in question (i.e., perhaps via resellers).
Step 5. Fixed-Parameter Linear Estimation
Nonlinearities are assumed in cases where filtered data exist along the aggregate consumption function. Because the world consists of more than 2000 cities, there will always be those cities, especially toward the bottom of the consumption function, where non-linear estimation is simply not possible. For these cities, equilibrium latent demand is assumed to be perfectly parametric and not a function of wealth (i.e., a city’s stock of income), but a function of current income (a city’s flow of income). In the long run, if a city has no current income, the latent demand for test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors is assumed to approach zero. The assumption is that wealth stocks fall rapidly to zero if flow income falls to zero (i.e., cities which earn low levels of income will not use their savings, in the long run, to demand test equipment for testing electrical, radio and communication circuits, and motors). In a graphical sense, for low income cities, latent demand approaches zero in a parametric linear fashion with a zero-zero intercept. In this stage of the estimation procedure, low-income cities are assumed to have a latent demand proportional to their income, based on the city closest to it on the aggregate consumption function.
Step 6. Aggregation and Benchmarking
Based on the models described above, latent demand figures are estimated for all cities of the world, including for the smallest economies. These are then aggregated to get world totals and regional totals. To make the numbers more meaningful, regional and global demand averages are presented. Figures are rounded, so minor inconsistencies may exist across tables.
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