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No. 2013/03 | 13 Nov 2013 |
A Cross-country Comparison of Household Income, Consumption and Wealth between Micro Sources and National Accounts Aggregates
Much valuable information exists already on household economic resources (i.e. income, consumption and wealth). Indeed, the national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to... |
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No. 2008/02 | 24 Jan 2008 |
A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship
In recent years entrepreneurship has become a buzzword that?s entered the mainstream. Politicians continuously cite its importance and the need to create more entrepreneurial societies, and newspapers and television programmes frequently create... |
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No. 2010/05 | 12 Jul 2010 |
A Framework to Measure the Progress of Societies
Over the last three decades, a number of frameworks have been developed to promote and measure well-being, quality of life, human development and sustainable development. Some frameworks use a conceptual approach while others employ a consultative... |
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No. 2011/02 | 23 Feb 2011 |
A Multiplicative Masking Method for Preserving the Skewness of the Original Micro-records
Masking methods for the safe dissemination of microdata consist of distorting the original data while preserving a pre-defined set of statistical properties in the microdata. For continuous variables, available methodologies rely essentially on... |
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No. 2017/05 | 11 Apr 2017 |
A Primer on Government-Sponsored Pension Schemes in the National Accounts and their Impact on the Interpretation of Government Debt Statistics
Government debt has many characteristics and thus cannot be fully captured by one indicator. There are several different ways of defining government debt, and each definition can lead to different interpretations of a government’s financial... |
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No. 2006/03 | 24 Oct 2006 |
A Proposed Framework For business Demography Statistics
The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD economies. Understanding business behaviour, creative destruction and identifying successful and failing businesses, as well as... |
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No. 2016/09 | 17 Dec 2016 |
A Review of General Social Surveys
Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking at the diverse and multidimensional experiences and living conditions of people. Measuring well-being and progress is a key... |
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No. 2018/10 | 16 Nov 2018 |
A long-term perspective on the development experience of emerging and industrialised economies
This paper describes development patterns beyond GDP in a long-term historical perspective. It revisits the discussion on the goals of development in light of the current discussions on ‘Beyond GDP’, provides evidence on GDP and well-being outcomes... |
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No. 2017/06 | 05 May 2017 |
Access to new data sources for statistics
New data sources, commonly referred to as “Big Data”, have attracted growing interest from National Statistical Institutes. They have the potential to complement official and more conventional statistics used, for instance, to determine progress... |
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No. 2024/02 | 19 Mar 2024 |
An ocean of data
Rising uncertainties and geo-political tensions, together with increasingly complex trade relations have increased the demand for monitoring global trade in a timely manner. Although it was primarily designed to ensure vessel safety, information from... |
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No. 2012/04 | 23 Nov 2012 |
Approaches to Measuring the Stock of Human Capital
The paper reviews some national initiatives related to measuring the stock of human capital, indentifies some challenges to be addressed to improve the quality of existing monetary measures of human capital, and suggests developing experimental... |
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No. 2015/05 | 10 Dec 2015 |
Beyond GDP
This paper builds a welfare measure encompassing household disposable income, unemployment and longevity, while using two different sets of “shadow prices” for non-income variables. The valuations of vital and unemployment risks estimated from life... |
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No. 2016/03 | 13 May 2016 |
Big Data Measures of Well-Being
We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being... |
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No. 2020/01 | 16 Jan 2020 |
Business cycle dynamics after the Great Recession
The Great Recession and the subsequent period of subdued GDP growth in most advanced economies have highlighted the need for macroeconomic forecasters to account for sudden and deep recessions, periods of higher macroeconomic volatility, and... |
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No. 2022/04 | 08 Mar 2022 |
CO2 Emissions from air transport
By moving goods and people over large distances, air transport facilitates international trade and tourism and thus contributes to economic growth and job creation. At the same time, it also comes with environmental challenges, largely related to air... |
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No. 2023/04 | 12 Sept 2023 |
CO2 emissions from global shipping
The shipping industry is essential for international trade, but it is also an important source of CO2 emissions. To make progress towards climate targets, countries need to monitor CO2 emissions from vessels owned by their ship operator companies.... |
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No. 2014/01 | 18 Jun 2014 |
Can Increasing Inequality Be a Steady State?
Historically, discussions of income inequality have emphasised cross-sectional comparisons of levels of inequality of income. These comparisons have been used to argue that countries with more inequality are less healthy, less democratic, more... |
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No. 2017/09 | 21 Jul 2017 |
Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth?
The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of measured... |
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No. 2015/02 | 06 Mar 2015 |
Cast a Ballot or Protest in the Street - Did our Grandparents Do More of Both?
Recent research suggests that younger generations are less likely to be engaged in formal political participation than older ones. However, there is little evidence on the trends for non-formal participation (e.g. signing petitions, demonstrations,... |
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No. 2018/05 | 27 Sept 2018 |
Child well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals
This paper summarises available evidence on the distance that OECD countries need to travel in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for children and young people. More than 50 indicators are included in this analysis,... |
OECD Statistics Working Papers
The OECD Statistics Working Paper Series - managed by the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate – is designed to make available in a timely fashion and to a wider readership selected studies prepared by staff in the Secretariat or by outside consultants working on OECD projects. The papers included are of a technical, methodological or statistical policy nature and relate to statistical work relevant to the organisation. The Working Papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
Joint Working Papers:
Testing the evidence, how good are public sector responsiveness measures and how to improve them? (with OECD Public Governance Directorate)
Measuring Well-being and Progress in Countries at Different Stages of Development: Towards a More Universal Conceptual Framework (with OECD Development Centre)
Measuring and Assessing Job Quality: The OECD Job Quality Framework (with OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs)
Forecasting GDP during and after the Great Recession: A contest between small-scale bridge and large-scale dynamic factor models (with OECD Economics Directorate)
Decoupling of wages from productivity: Macro-level facts (with OECD Economics Directorate)
Which policies increase value for money in health care? (with OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs)
Compiling mineral and energy resource accounts according to the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) 2012 (with OECD Environment Directorate)
English
- ISSN: 18152031 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18152031
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A Cross-country Comparison of Household Income, Consumption and Wealth between Micro Sources and National Accounts Aggregates
Maryse Fesseau, Florence Wolff and Maria Liviana Mattonetti
13 Nov 2013
Much valuable information exists already on household economic resources (i.e. income, consumption and wealth). Indeed, the national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to...
A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship
Nadim Ahmad and Anders Hoffman
24 Jan 2008
In recent years entrepreneurship has become a buzzword that?s entered the mainstream. Politicians continuously cite its importance and the need to create more entrepreneurial societies, and newspapers and television programmes frequently create...
A Framework to Measure the Progress of Societies
Jon Hall, Enrico Giovannini, Adolfo Morrone and Giulia Ranuzzi
12 Jul 2010
Over the last three decades, a number of frameworks have been developed to promote and measure well-being, quality of life, human development and sustainable development. Some frameworks use a conceptual approach while others employ a consultative...
A Multiplicative Masking Method for Preserving the Skewness of the Original Micro-records
Nicolas Ruiz
23 Feb 2011
Masking methods for the safe dissemination of microdata consist of distorting the original data while preserving a pre-defined set of statistical properties in the microdata. For continuous variables, available methodologies rely essentially on...
A Primer on Government-Sponsored Pension Schemes in the National Accounts and their Impact on the Interpretation of Government Debt Statistics
Paul Goebel
11 Apr 2017
Government debt has many characteristics and thus cannot be fully captured by one indicator. There are several different ways of defining government debt, and each definition can lead to different interpretations of a government’s financial...
A Proposed Framework For business Demography Statistics
Nadim Ahmad
24 Oct 2006
The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD economies. Understanding business behaviour, creative destruction and identifying successful and failing businesses, as well as...
A Review of General Social Surveys
Lara Fleischer, Conal Smith and Carine Viac
17 Dec 2016
Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking at the diverse and multidimensional experiences and living conditions of people. Measuring well-being and progress is a key...
A long-term perspective on the development experience of emerging and industrialised economies
Auke Rijpma, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Marco Mira d’Ercole
16 Nov 2018
This paper describes development patterns beyond GDP in a long-term historical perspective. It revisits the discussion on the goals of development in light of the current discussions on ‘Beyond GDP’, provides evidence on GDP and well-being outcomes...
Access to new data sources for statistics
Thilo Klein and Stefaan Verhulst
05 May 2017
New data sources, commonly referred to as “Big Data”, have attracted growing interest from National Statistical Institutes. They have the potential to complement official and more conventional statistics used, for instance, to determine progress...
An ocean of data
Graham Pilgrim, Emmanuelle Guidetti and Annabelle Mourougane
19 Mar 2024
Rising uncertainties and geo-political tensions, together with increasingly complex trade relations have increased the demand for monitoring global trade in a timely manner. Although it was primarily designed to ensure vessel safety, information from...
Approaches to Measuring the Stock of Human Capital
Romina Boarini, Marco Mira d'Ercole and Gang Liu
23 Nov 2012
The paper reviews some national initiatives related to measuring the stock of human capital, indentifies some challenges to be addressed to improve the quality of existing monetary measures of human capital, and suggests developing experimental...
Beyond GDP
Fabrice Murtin, Romina Boarini, Juan Cordoba and Marla Ripoll
10 Dec 2015
This paper builds a welfare measure encompassing household disposable income, unemployment and longevity, while using two different sets of “shadow prices” for non-income variables. The valuations of vital and unemployment risks estimated from life...
Big Data Measures of Well-Being
Yann Algan, Elizabeth Beasley, Florian Guyot, Kazuhito Higa, Fabrice Murtin and Claudia Senik
13 May 2016
We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being...
Business cycle dynamics after the Great Recession
Catherine Doz, Laurent Ferrara and Pierre-Alain Pionnier
16 Jan 2020
The Great Recession and the subsequent period of subdued GDP growth in most advanced economies have highlighted the need for macroeconomic forecasters to account for sudden and deep recessions, periods of higher macroeconomic volatility, and...
CO2 Emissions from air transport
Daniel Clarke, Florian Flachenecker, Emmanuelle Guidetti and Pierre-Alain Pionnier
08 Mar 2022
By moving goods and people over large distances, air transport facilitates international trade and tourism and thus contributes to economic growth and job creation. At the same time, it also comes with environmental challenges, largely related to air...
CO2 emissions from global shipping
Daniel Clarke, Philip Chan, Matthew Dequeljoe, Yuri Kim and Sarah Barahona
12 Sept 2023
The shipping industry is essential for international trade, but it is also an important source of CO2 emissions. To make progress towards climate targets, countries need to monitor CO2 emissions from vessels owned by their ship operator companies....
Can Increasing Inequality Be a Steady State?
Lars Osberg
18 Jun 2014
Historically, discussions of income inequality have emphasised cross-sectional comparisons of levels of inequality of income. These comparisons have been used to argue that countries with more inequality are less healthy, less democratic, more...
Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth?
Nadim Ahmad, Jennifer Ribarsky and Marshall Reinsdorf
21 Jul 2017
The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of measured...
Cast a Ballot or Protest in the Street - Did our Grandparents Do More of Both?
Romina Boarini and Marcos Díaz
06 Mar 2015
Recent research suggests that younger generations are less likely to be engaged in formal political participation than older ones. However, there is little evidence on the trends for non-formal participation (e.g. signing petitions, demonstrations,...
Child well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals
David Marguerit, Guillaume Cohen and Carrie Exton
27 Sept 2018
This paper summarises available evidence on the distance that OECD countries need to travel in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for children and young people. More than 50 indicators are included in this analysis,...