63. The Group then agreed that a third alternative possibility would be to adjust the price of conscripts upward by including the in-kind compensation of conscripts and shifting such expenditures from the "Operations and maintenance" to the "Personnel" category. However, the Group did not at first have available sufficient data to make such adjustments. / . . . A/40/421 English Paqe 22 64. To avoid having to make a choice between two poor solutions, the Group decided to make another effort in order to collect some additional information on conscripts. This was done at a rather late stage by means of a supplementary auestionnaire dealing with such matters as the number of conscript man-years and the total costs of conscripts with different lengths of service. This auestionnaire is to be found in appendix I to the present report. 2. Treatment of data 65. For the purpose of constructing military price indexes, the Group decided to apply weights for military personnel according to the number of man-years in each rank, but eaual weiqhts to all other items within their respective sub-subcategory. The latter weights were based on the distribution of expenditures in 1982 as reported by the countries to the United Nations in the framework of its reporting system, or reported directly to the Group by means of the reporting instrument. Thus, the weights remained the same for the comparisons among all three years in auestion. 66. The Group also decided to use as much data as were made available by the contacts as long as they were regarded to be comparable over time. This means that the items used for the construction of price indexes may have differed slightly among the countries. 67. In the construction of purchasing-power parities, the Group used price data for a narrower set of items which were selected on the basis that the assumption 
**Analysis**
This text appears to be discussing economic and financial data related to military personnel and operations, specifically the construction of military price indexes and purchasing-power parities. The language and concepts used, such as "expenditures", "man-years", "weights", and "price indexes", suggest a focus on economic data and analysis.

**Category**
Industry, International trade