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Introduction

Survey Method

Data Analysis

Summary of Findings

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Data Analysis (continued)

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A list of the remaining 357 organizations was provided to the High Technology Development Corporation. HTDC staff reviewed all code assignments and made reassignments based on professional knowledge and information about industrial classifications. As a result of this review, 12 organizations were removed as not applicable to high technology and 7 engineering firms were judged as not specializing in high-tech areas. In addition, 21 energy firms that had been included in the survey to provide information to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism were excluded from the data analysis, leaving a total of 317 organizations for analysis. Of these, 297 were considered to be in core high-technology areas and were defined as high-tech firms. Another 20 were classified as high technology support organizations and were subject to some analysis but were not put in the core high-tech group.

The focus of the analysis was on the core group of 297 high technology firms and organizations as being the most representative of high tech industry in Hawaii.

Estimates and Projections From The Survey

Employment and gross revenue estimates for high technology industries in Hawaii are shown in Table 1. Totals by industry category for firms and organizations in the survey and for the state as a whole are presented by industry category. Statewide estimates were derived by multiplying the survey estimates by the population to sample ratio of 2.1173 for high technology organizations from the HTDC sample[1] found in Table B. [2] In the table estimates are also provided for organizations involved in support and administration of high technology efforts.

Figure 1 shows the estimated number of high technology firms and organizations in the state of Hawaii by industry category. These were derived by applying the population to sample ratio to the number of firms in each category responding to the survey. Figures 2 and 3 present the statewide employment and revenue estimates by industry category from 
Table 1.

Figure 4 and 5 show estimates of the total number of Hawaii high technology organizations and the total gross revenue of the Hawaii high technology industry projected to the year 2000. To derive these estimates, revenue figures for the years 1990 and 1993[3] were first converted to 1998 dollars using the Consumer Price Index for the State of Hawaii.[4] The years 1990, 1993, and 1998 were then used to develop linear regression equations featuring the year as the independent variable and total number of firms or total revenue as the dependent variable. These equations were used to develop estimates for the number of high technology organizations and their total revenue for the year 2000.

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[1] The rate of response to the HTDC sample was considered to be the best basis for making projections to Hawaii high tech industry as a whole since it best represented the category of high technology firms.

[2] A cautionary note on these estimates: Because there was some tendency for smaller organizations to withhold or not report financial data, there may have been an upward bias to the income and expenditure averages produced in this report.

[3]Figures from HTDC Strategic Plan 1995-2000.

[4] Table 14.02, 1997 Hawaii State Data Book


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