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No. 2015/04 | 05 Nov 2015 |
Comparing Happiness across the World
The issue of cultural bias in subjective well-being data is often raised, but rarely well-documented. This paper reviews the main barriers to interpreting national differences in subjective well-being, noting the challenge of distinguishing between... |
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No. 2003/05 | 12 Dec 2003 |
Comparing Labour Productivity Growth in the OECD Area
This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However,... |
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No. 2010/03 | 09 Jul 2010 |
Comparing Price Levels of Hospital Services Across Countries
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services consumed... |
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No. 2015/03 | 29 May 2015 |
Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries
This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. Such comparisons are often based on accounts for institutional sectors such as non-financial corporations.... |
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No. 2006/05 | 11 Dec 2006 |
Composite Leading Indicators and Growth Cycles in Major OECD Non-Member Economies and recently new OECD Members Countries
The OECD developed a System of Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for its Member Countries in the early 1980?s based on the ?growth cycle? approach and up to 2006 the Organisation compiled composite leading indicators for 23 of the 30 Member... |
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No. 2006/01 | 25 Jan 2006 |
Composite Leading Indicators for Major OECD Non-Member Economies
The OECD developed a System of Composite Leading indicators for its Member countries in the early 1980's based on the 'growth cycle' approach. Today the OECD compiles composite leading indicators (CLIs) for 23 of its 30 Member countries and it is... |
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No. 2007/01 | 11 May 2007 |
Current Period Performance of OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs)
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the current period performance of the OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for 21 OECD Member countries and three zone aggregates (OECD area, Euro area and Major Seven countries) for which CLIs are... |
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No. 2011/04 | 27 May 2011 |
Cycle Extraction: A Comparison of the Phase-Average Trend Method, the Hodrick-Prescott and Christiano-Fitzgerald Filters
This paper reports on revision properties of different de-trending and smoothing methods (cycle estimation methods), including PAT with MCD smoothing, a double Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter and the Christiano-Fitzgerald (CF) filter. The different... |
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No. 2008/01 | 24 Jan 2008 |
Defining Entrepreneurial Activity
This paper sets out definitions of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activity for the purpose of supporting the development of related indicators. The paper recognises the long history in this area and the contention and... |
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No. 2010/06 | 17 Nov 2010 |
Developing Societal Progress Indicators
There is a broad recognition that the development of cross-cutting, high-quality, shared, and accessible information about a society’s progress is crucial to ensure that decision-making is simultaneously responsive and responsible at all levels.... |
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No. 2021/02 | 24 Aug 2021 |
Developing thematic satellite accounts
The 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) provides the international standards for compiling macro-economic statistics. In addition to the core set of accounts, the 2008 SNA also introduces satellite accounts, which are linked to, but distinct from,... |
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No. 2021/01 | 18 Jun 2021 |
Distribution of household income, consumption and saving in line with national accounts
Economic inequality has been a matter of concern for policy makers and citizens. Evidence-based policies around important topics such as inequality need to rely on systematic, robust data and indicators. For that reason, the OECD and Eurostat have... |
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No. 2013/04 | 13 Nov 2013 |
Distributional Measures Across Household Groups in a National Accounts Framework
Valuable information exists already on household economic resources. The national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to derive measures of the distribution across... |
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No. 2018/09 | 12 Nov 2018 |
Diversity statistics in the OECD
Data on ethnic, racial and indigenous identity can help render certain minorities statistically visible, and expose potential discrimination and inequalities. This paper systematically reviews diversity data collection practices in OECD countries and... |
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No. 2009/01 | 25 Feb 2009 |
Do Financial Systems Converge?
Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics of the continental European systems, where intermediaries are predominant. The... |
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No. 2016/02 | 26 Feb 2016 |
Economic Theory and Practical Lessons for Measuring Equality of Opportunities
The development of a dashboard of statistics for the monitoring of equality of opportunity should recognize important lessons from economic theory: first, descriptive statistics associated with intergenerational mobility do not speak directly to... |
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No. 2017/04 | 16 Mar 2017 |
Estimating Transport and Insurance Costs of International Trade
Although the costs associated with the international transport and insurance of merchandise trade are an important determinant of the volume and geography of international trade, remarkably little (official) data exist. Combining the largest and most... |
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No. 2021/03 | 08 Dec 2021 |
Estimating regional house price levels
While indices tracing the evolutions of regional house prices are increasingly available, this is less the case for similar data on house price levels. And where data on house price levels exist, they are not necessarily consistent with the patterns... |
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No. 2020/04 | 26 Oct 2020 |
Ethnic bias, economic success and trust
This paper studies ethnic in-group bias in online trust games played by two large representative samples in the United States and Germany through the Trustlab platform, which was launched by the OECD and several research partners in 2017. The ethnic... |
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No. 2016/10 | 28 Jan 2017 |
Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework
In 2011, an Expert Group was launched to carry out a feasibility study on the compilation of distributional measures of income, consumption and wealth across household groups consistent with national accounts data. This group developed a methodology... |
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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Comparing Happiness across the World
Carrie Exton, Conal Smith and Damien Vandendriessche
05 Nov 2015
The issue of cultural bias in subjective well-being data is often raised, but rarely well-documented. This paper reviews the main barriers to interpreting national differences in subjective well-being, noting the challenge of distinguishing between...
Comparing Labour Productivity Growth in the OECD Area
Nadim Ahmad, François Lequiller, Pascal Marianna, Dirk Pilat, Paul Schreyer and Anita Wölfl
12 Dec 2003
This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However,...
Comparing Price Levels of Hospital Services Across Countries
OECD
09 Jul 2010
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services consumed...
Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries
Pierre-Alain Pionnier and Emmanuelle Guidetti
29 May 2015
This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. Such comparisons are often based on accounts for institutional sectors such as non-financial corporations....
Composite Leading Indicators and Growth Cycles in Major OECD Non-Member Economies and recently new OECD Members Countries
Ronny Nilsson
11 Dec 2006
The OECD developed a System of Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for its Member Countries in the early 1980?s based on the ?growth cycle? approach and up to 2006 the Organisation compiled composite leading indicators for 23 of the 30 Member...
Composite Leading Indicators for Major OECD Non-Member Economies
Ronny Nilsson and Olivier Brunet
25 Jan 2006
The OECD developed a System of Composite Leading indicators for its Member countries in the early 1980's based on the 'growth cycle' approach. Today the OECD compiles composite leading indicators (CLIs) for 23 of its 30 Member countries and it is...
Current Period Performance of OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs)
Ronny Nilsson and Emmanuelle Guidetti
11 May 2007
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the current period performance of the OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for 21 OECD Member countries and three zone aggregates (OECD area, Euro area and Major Seven countries) for which CLIs are...
Cycle Extraction: A Comparison of the Phase-Average Trend Method, the Hodrick-Prescott and Christiano-Fitzgerald Filters
Ronny Nilsson and Gyorgy Gyomai
27 May 2011
This paper reports on revision properties of different de-trending and smoothing methods (cycle estimation methods), including PAT with MCD smoothing, a double Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter and the Christiano-Fitzgerald (CF) filter. The different...
Defining Entrepreneurial Activity
Nadim Ahmad and Richard G. Seymour
24 Jan 2008
This paper sets out definitions of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activity for the purpose of supporting the development of related indicators. The paper recognises the long history in this area and the contention and...
Developing Societal Progress Indicators
Dennis Trewin and Jon Hall
17 Nov 2010
There is a broad recognition that the development of cross-cutting, high-quality, shared, and accessible information about a society’s progress is crucial to ensure that decision-making is simultaneously responsive and responsible at all levels....
Developing thematic satellite accounts
Peter van de Ven
24 Aug 2021
The 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) provides the international standards for compiling macro-economic statistics. In addition to the core set of accounts, the 2008 SNA also introduces satellite accounts, which are linked to, but distinct from,...
Distribution of household income, consumption and saving in line with national accounts
Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Sophie Bournot, David Grahn and Emmanuelle Guidetti
18 Jun 2021
Economic inequality has been a matter of concern for policy makers and citizens. Evidence-based policies around important topics such as inequality need to rely on systematic, robust data and indicators. For that reason, the OECD and Eurostat have...
Distributional Measures Across Household Groups in a National Accounts Framework
Maryse Fesseau and Maria Liviana Mattonetti
13 Nov 2013
Valuable information exists already on household economic resources. The national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to derive measures of the distribution across...
Diversity statistics in the OECD
Carlotta Balestra and Lara Fleischer
12 Nov 2018
Data on ethnic, racial and indigenous identity can help render certain minorities statistically visible, and expose potential discrimination and inequalities. This paper systematically reviews diversity data collection practices in OECD countries and...
Do Financial Systems Converge?
Giuseppe Bruno and Riccardo De Bonis
25 Feb 2009
Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics of the continental European systems, where intermediaries are predominant. The...
Economic Theory and Practical Lessons for Measuring Equality of Opportunities
Miles Corak
26 Feb 2016
The development of a dashboard of statistics for the monitoring of equality of opportunity should recognize important lessons from economic theory: first, descriptive statistics associated with intergenerational mobility do not speak directly to...
Estimating Transport and Insurance Costs of International Trade
Guannan Miao and Fabienne Fortanier
16 Mar 2017
Although the costs associated with the international transport and insurance of merchandise trade are an important determinant of the volume and geography of international trade, remarkably little (official) data exist. Combining the largest and most...
Estimating regional house price levels
Pierre-Alain Pionnier and Johannes Schuffels
08 Dec 2021
While indices tracing the evolutions of regional house prices are increasingly available, this is less the case for similar data on house price levels. And where data on house price levels exist, they are not necessarily consistent with the patterns...
Ethnic bias, economic success and trust
Sophie Cetre, Yann Algan, Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, Louis Putterman, Ulrich Schmidt and Vincent Siegerink
26 Oct 2020
This paper studies ethnic in-group bias in online trust games played by two large representative samples in the United States and Germany through the Trustlab platform, which was launched by the OECD and several research partners in 2017. The ethnic...
Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework
Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Sophie Bournot and Federico Giovannelli
28 Jan 2017
In 2011, an Expert Group was launched to carry out a feasibility study on the compilation of distributional measures of income, consumption and wealth across household groups consistent with national accounts data. This group developed a methodology...