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No. 2012/01 | 31 Jan 2012 |
Exploring Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing in OECD Countries
The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average. The results, which are in line with... |
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No. 2013/06 | 10 Dec 2013 |
Four Interpretations of Social Capital
This paper looks beyond the broad notion of social capital – which has been applied to a number of different phenomena –in order to clarify (i) the range of different elements that are encompassed by the term; and (ii) what needs to be done to... |
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No. 2008/03 | 12 Feb 2008 |
Globalisation in Services
This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates' sales in a host country) for four major OECD countries, thanks to the harmonisation of FATS statistics with conventional international trade ones... |
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No. 2017/03 | 11 Mar 2017 |
Governance statistics in OECD countries and beyond
The paper provides a first assessment of the range of governance statistics that are available in OECD countries, reaching three main conclusions. First, while several statistics relating to various aspects of governance are already available, they... |
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No. 2005/03 | 09 Aug 2005 |
Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators
This Handbook aims to provide a guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers, academics, the media and other interested parties. While there are several types of composite indicators, this Handbook is concerned with those... |
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No. 2017/01 | 28 Jan 2017 |
Has the Labour Share Declined?
We revisit the issue of how best to measure the labour and capital shares in OECD economies, distinguishing between production- and income-based perspectives. The former adopts a producer perspective with gross income as a reference: it uses a... |
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No. 2011/01 | 04 Feb 2011 |
Hedonic Price Indexes for Housing
Every house is different. It is important that house price indexes take account of these quality differences. Hedonic methods which express house prices as a function of a vector of characteristics (such as number of bedrooms and bathrooms, land area... |
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No. 2013/05 | 23 Dec 2013 |
Home Sweet Home: The Determinants of Residential Satisfaction and its Relation with Well-being
Housing is a core element of people’s material living standards. It is essential to meet basic needs, such as for shelter from weather conditions, and to offer a sense of personal security, privacy and personal space. Good housing conditions are also... |
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No. 2003/02 | 04 Mar 2003 |
Household Wealth in the National Accounts of Europe, the United States and Japan
This working paper has been presented and discussed at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Experts Meeting. The objective of the paper is two fold: (1) present comparable results for household financial and non financial assets and liabilities... |
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No. 2009/03 | 23 Oct 2009 |
How Good is Trust?
This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of indicators that could better inform our understanding of societal progress. Trust is commonly viewed as a proxy indicator of social... |
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No. 2015/01 | 05 Mar 2015 |
How Should One Measure Economic Insecurity?
People feel economically insecure when they perceive a significant hazard or danger looming in the future, which they are unable to insure against, avoid or ignore. While all OECD countries devote significant resources to mitigate economic... |
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No. 2020/02 | 15 Jul 2020 |
How far are OECD countries from achieving SDG targets for women and girls?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call to achieve peace and prosperity for all by 2030, leaving no one behind. This paper summarises available evidence to measure the distance that OECD countries need to travel in order to reach SDG targets... |
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No. 2020/03 | 01 Oct 2020 |
How to measure distance to SDG targets anywhere
Achieving the 2030 Agenda requires understanding how far countries are from achieving its 17 goals and their 169 targets. To assist member countries in this assessment, the OECD Measuring Distance to the SDG Targets study applied a specific... |
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No. 2013/02 | 28 Mar 2013 |
Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual
Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its GDP. Instead the average observed ratio from the balance sheet accounts of the System of National Accounts (SNA) is a factor of 2.6 to... |
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No. 2005/04 | 17 Aug 2005 |
ICT and Economic Growth
Using new sectoral data on investment and capital services we carry out a growth accounting exercise on Spain 1985-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour qualification... |
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No. 2005/05 | 22 Dec 2005 |
Improving Timeliness for Short-Term Economic Statistics
Effective business cycle analysis, and indeed the monitoring of a country’s economic performance from a policy perspective, requires access to timely high quality short-term economic statistics (STES). Consequently in recent years there has been a... |
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No. 2018/04 | 28 Jul 2018 |
Including unpaid household activities
The System of National Accounts, which provides information on important macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), household disposable income and final consumption, typically excludes the value of unpaid household activities.... |
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No. 2015/06 | 05 Nov 2015 |
Inclusive Growth
This paper presents the Measurement Framework of the OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative, a horizontal project that the OECD launched in 2012 to develop a new vision of economic growth that can translate in higher living standards for all. This... |
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No. 2011/07 | 14 Oct 2011 |
Incorporating Estimates of Household Production of Non-Market Services into International Comparisons of Material Well-Being
This paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, in order to better compare material well-being across countries. The work is being conducted under the aegis... |
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No. 2010/04 | 30 Jun 2010 |
Indicators of “Societal Progress”
This paper looks at different experiences in the development and use of societal progress indicator sets – at the European, national and sub-national level – with the aim of identifying useful lessons from these experiences. Five case studies are... |
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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Exploring Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing in OECD Countries
Sarah Fleche, Conal Smith and Piritta Sorsa
31 Jan 2012
The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average. The results, which are in line with...
Four Interpretations of Social Capital
Katherine Scrivens and Conal Smith
10 Dec 2013
This paper looks beyond the broad notion of social capital – which has been applied to a number of different phenomena –in order to clarify (i) the range of different elements that are encompassed by the term; and (ii) what needs to be done to...
Globalisation in Services
Isabelle Bensidoun and Deniz Ünal-Kesenci
12 Feb 2008
This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates' sales in a host country) for four major OECD countries, thanks to the harmonisation of FATS statistics with conventional international trade ones...
Governance statistics in OECD countries and beyond
Santiago González, Lara Fleischer and Marco Mira d’Ercole
11 Mar 2017
The paper provides a first assessment of the range of governance statistics that are available in OECD countries, reaching three main conclusions. First, while several statistics relating to various aspects of governance are already available, they...
Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators
Michela Nardo, Michaela Saisana, Andrea Saltelli, Stefano Tarantola, Anders Hoffman and Enrico Giovannini
09 Aug 2005
This Handbook aims to provide a guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers, academics, the media and other interested parties. While there are several types of composite indicators, this Handbook is concerned with those...
Has the Labour Share Declined?
Taehyoung Cho, Soobin Hwang and Paul Schreyer
28 Jan 2017
We revisit the issue of how best to measure the labour and capital shares in OECD economies, distinguishing between production- and income-based perspectives. The former adopts a producer perspective with gross income as a reference: it uses a...
Hedonic Price Indexes for Housing
Robert Hill
04 Feb 2011
Every house is different. It is important that house price indexes take account of these quality differences. Hedonic methods which express house prices as a function of a vector of characteristics (such as number of bedrooms and bathrooms, land area...
Home Sweet Home: The Determinants of Residential Satisfaction and its Relation with Well-being
Carlotta Balestra and Joyce Sultan
23 Dec 2013
Housing is a core element of people’s material living standards. It is essential to meet basic needs, such as for shelter from weather conditions, and to offer a sense of personal security, privacy and personal space. Good housing conditions are also...
Household Wealth in the National Accounts of Europe, the United States and Japan
André Babeau and Teresa Sbano
04 Mar 2003
This working paper has been presented and discussed at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Experts Meeting. The objective of the paper is two fold: (1) present comparable results for household financial and non financial assets and liabilities...
How Good is Trust?
Adolfo Morrone, Noemi Tontoranelli and Giulia Ranuzzi
23 Oct 2009
This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of indicators that could better inform our understanding of societal progress. Trust is commonly viewed as a proxy indicator of social...
How Should One Measure Economic Insecurity?
Lars Osberg
05 Mar 2015
People feel economically insecure when they perceive a significant hazard or danger looming in the future, which they are unable to insure against, avoid or ignore. While all OECD countries devote significant resources to mitigate economic...
How far are OECD countries from achieving SDG targets for women and girls?
Guillaume Cohen and Michal Shinwell
15 Jul 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call to achieve peace and prosperity for all by 2030, leaving no one behind. This paper summarises available evidence to measure the distance that OECD countries need to travel in order to reach SDG targets...
How to measure distance to SDG targets anywhere
Guillaume Cohen and Michal Shinwell
01 Oct 2020
Achieving the 2030 Agenda requires understanding how far countries are from achieving its 17 goals and their 169 targets. To assist member countries in this assessment, the OECD Measuring Distance to the SDG Targets study applied a specific...
Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual
Kirk Hamilton and Gang Liu
28 Mar 2013
Since income is the return on wealth, the total wealth of any given country should be on the order of 20 times its GDP. Instead the average observed ratio from the balance sheet accounts of the System of National Accounts (SNA) is a factor of 2.6 to...
ICT and Economic Growth
Matilde Mas and Javier Quesada
17 Aug 2005
Using new sectoral data on investment and capital services we carry out a growth accounting exercise on Spain 1985-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour qualification...
Improving Timeliness for Short-Term Economic Statistics
Richard McKenzie
22 Dec 2005
Effective business cycle analysis, and indeed the monitoring of a country’s economic performance from a policy perspective, requires access to timely high quality short-term economic statistics (STES). Consequently in recent years there has been a...
Including unpaid household activities
Peter van de Ven, Jorrit Zwijnenburg and Matthew De Queljoe
28 Jul 2018
The System of National Accounts, which provides information on important macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), household disposable income and final consumption, typically excludes the value of unpaid household activities....
Inclusive Growth
Romina Boarini, Fabrice Murtin and Paul Schreyer
05 Nov 2015
This paper presents the Measurement Framework of the OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative, a horizontal project that the OECD launched in 2012 to develop a new vision of economic growth that can translate in higher living standards for all. This...
Incorporating Estimates of Household Production of Non-Market Services into International Comparisons of Material Well-Being
Nadim Ahmad and Seung-Hee Koh
14 Oct 2011
This paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, in order to better compare material well-being across countries. The work is being conducted under the aegis...
Indicators of “Societal Progress”
Katherine Scrivens and Barbara Iasiello
30 Jun 2010
This paper looks at different experiences in the development and use of societal progress indicator sets – at the European, national and sub-national level – with the aim of identifying useful lessons from these experiences. Five case studies are...