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No. 2017/08 | 18 Jul 2017 |
Indicators on global value chains
Traditionally, the main source of data used to measure countries’ participation in international production networks or global value chains (GVCs) has been conventional international trade statistics. However, international fragmentation of... |
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No. 2018/13 | 13 Dec 2018 |
Inequalities in emerging economies
The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa) in a range of monetary (i.e. income) and non-monetary dimensions of people’s life (i.e. education, health... |
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No. 2018/01 | 21 Jun 2018 |
Inequalities in household wealth across OECD countries
This paper describes how household wealth is distributed in 28 OECD countries, based on evidence from the second wave of the OECD Wealth Distribution Database. A number of general patterns emerge from these data. First, wealth concentration is twice... |
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No. 2017/02 | 14 Jan 2017 |
Inequalities in longevity by education in OECD countries
This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data on mortality rates by age, gender, educationals attainment and for, 17 countries, cause of death, were collected from national... |
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No. 2007/03 | 03 Apr 2007 |
International Measurement of the Economic and Social Importance of Culture
This report provides information on an OECD Project examining the feasibility of producing reliable international comparative measures of the culture sector. As part of the project, initial measures were produced for five countries and four cities. A... |
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No. 2022/03 | 21 Feb 2022 |
International comparisons of the measurement of non-market output during the COVID-19 pandemic
The measurement of non-market output, characterised by providing goods and services without economically significant prices, has always proved challenging for compilers of the National Accounts. Various approaches are available to meet these... |
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No. 2018/12 | 10 Dec 2018 |
International productivity gaps
Cross-country differences in the measurement of labour input contribute to observed productivity gaps across countries. In most countries, labour force surveys (LFS) form a primary source of information for employment related statistics, such as... |
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No. 2011/08 | 21 Nov 2011 |
Linking Policies to Well-Being Outcomes Through Micro-Simulation
A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for... |
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No. 2003/04 | 24 Jun 2003 |
Measurement of Output, Value Added, GDP in Canada and the United States
This report provides, in a summary fashion, similarities and differences in the production accounts of Canada and the United States. The discussion is limited to those issues which affect the level of output, value added and GDP, both at the total... |
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No. 2017/10 | 19 Oct 2017 |
Measures of interpersonal trust
Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it is... |
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No. 2004/01 | 02 Dec 2004 |
Measuring Atypical Jobs
Over the past years, non-standard, flexible employment contracts have gained in importance in many OECD countries. This has made it difficult for statisticians to apply standard classifications of working arrangements to measure and analyse labour... |
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No. 2015/08 | 05 Nov 2015 |
Measuring Educational Inequalities in Mortality Statistics
All OECD countries are faced with substantial inequalities in health status between socioeconomic groups within their populations. One aspect of these inequalities for which data are routinely available in many countries is inequalities in mortality... |
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No. 2016/07 | 17 Jun 2016 |
Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy
Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer... |
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No. 2014/03 | 28 Aug 2014 |
Measuring Income Inequality and Poverty at the Regional Level in OECD Countries
The extent to which income inequality and poverty vary within countries across different regions is very relevant for policy decisions and monitoring. However, sub-national measures are scarce, given the complexity of producing indicators at the... |
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No. 2019/01 | 27 Feb 2019 |
Measuring consumer inflation in a digital economy
The effect on the household consumption price index from possible sources of error in capturing digital products depends on the weight of the affected products. To calculate upper bounds for this effect, we apply weights based on the average... |
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No. 2012/02 | 13 Apr 2012 |
Measuring the Evolution of Korea's Material Living Standards 1980-2010
Based on a production-theoretic framework, we measure the effects of real output prices, primary inputs, multi-factor productivity growth, and depreciation on Korea’s real net income growth over the past 30 years. The empirical analysis is based on a... |
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No. 2011/05 | 10 Nov 2011 |
Measuring the Joint Distribution of Household's Income, Consumption and Wealth Using Nested Atkinson Measures
Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households. income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multidimensional extension of the... |
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No. 2011/06 | 10 Oct 2011 |
Measuring the Stock of Human Capital for Comparative Analysis
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the first phase of the OECD human capital project. In so doing, it shows the feasibility of applying the lifetime income approach to measuring human capital for comparative analysis, both across countries and... |
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No. 2018/08 | 09 Nov 2018 |
Measuring the impact of businesses on people’s well-being and sustainability
Businesses have a significant impact on people’s economic and social conditions, as well as on environmental outcomes. This paper presents an overview of the various kinds of initiatives aimed at measuring or reporting on business’ impact, or certain... |
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No. 2013/01 | 10 Apr 2013 |
More than the Sum of their Parts: Valuing Environmental Quality by Combining Life Satisfaction Surveys and GIS Data
While environmental economics studies using stated life satisfaction data have been gaining attention, much of this body of work remains exploratory. In this study we contribute to this emerging body of research by combining OECD survey data from... |
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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Indicators on global value chains
Nadim Ahmad, Timon Bohn, Nanno Mulder, Marcel Vaillant and Dayna Zaclicever
18 Jul 2017
Traditionally, the main source of data used to measure countries’ participation in international production networks or global value chains (GVCs) has been conventional international trade statistics. However, international fragmentation of...
Inequalities in emerging economies
Carlotta Balestra, Ana Llena-Nozal, Fabrice Murtin, Elena Tosetto and Benoît Arnaud
13 Dec 2018
The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa) in a range of monetary (i.e. income) and non-monetary dimensions of people’s life (i.e. education, health...
Inequalities in household wealth across OECD countries
Carlotta Balestra and Richard Tonkin
21 Jun 2018
This paper describes how household wealth is distributed in 28 OECD countries, based on evidence from the second wave of the OECD Wealth Distribution Database. A number of general patterns emerge from these data. First, wealth concentration is twice...
Inequalities in longevity by education in OECD countries
Fabrice Murtin, Johan Mackenbach, Domantas Jasilionis and Marco Mira d’Ercole
14 Jan 2017
This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data on mortality rates by age, gender, educationals attainment and for, 17 countries, cause of death, were collected from national...
International Measurement of the Economic and Social Importance of Culture
John C. Gordon and Helen Beilby-Orrin
03 Apr 2007
This report provides information on an OECD Project examining the feasibility of producing reliable international comparative measures of the culture sector. As part of the project, initial measures were produced for five countries and four cities. A...
International comparisons of the measurement of non-market output during the COVID-19 pandemic
John Mitchell, James Lewis, Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Rachida Dkhissi and Thomas Prendergast
21 Feb 2022
The measurement of non-market output, characterised by providing goods and services without economically significant prices, has always proved challenging for compilers of the National Accounts. Various approaches are available to meet these...
International productivity gaps
Ashley Ward, María Belén Zinni and Pascal Marianna
10 Dec 2018
Cross-country differences in the measurement of labour input contribute to observed productivity gaps across countries. In most countries, labour force surveys (LFS) form a primary source of information for employment related statistics, such as...
Linking Policies to Well-Being Outcomes Through Micro-Simulation
Michael Wolfson
21 Nov 2011
A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for...
Measurement of Output, Value Added, GDP in Canada and the United States
Kishori Lal
24 Jun 2003
This report provides, in a summary fashion, similarities and differences in the production accounts of Canada and the United States. The discussion is limited to those issues which affect the level of output, value added and GDP, both at the total...
Measures of interpersonal trust
Ryan E. Carlin, Gregory J. Love and Conal Smith
19 Oct 2017
Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it is...
Measuring Atypical Jobs
Leonello Tronti, Francesca Ceccato and Eleonora Cimino
02 Dec 2004
Over the past years, non-standard, flexible employment contracts have gained in importance in many OECD countries. This has made it difficult for statisticians to apply standard classifications of working arrangements to measure and analyse labour...
Measuring Educational Inequalities in Mortality Statistics
Johan Mackenbach, Gwenn Menvielle, Domantas Jasilionis and Rianne de Gelder
05 Nov 2015
All OECD countries are faced with substantial inequalities in health status between socioeconomic groups within their populations. One aspect of these inequalities for which data are routinely available in many countries is inequalities in mortality...
Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy
Nadim Ahmad and Paul Schreyer
17 Jun 2016
Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer...
Measuring Income Inequality and Poverty at the Regional Level in OECD Countries
Mario Piacentini
28 Aug 2014
The extent to which income inequality and poverty vary within countries across different regions is very relevant for policy decisions and monitoring. However, sub-national measures are scarce, given the complexity of producing indicators at the...
Measuring consumer inflation in a digital economy
Marshall Reinsdorf and Paul Schreyer
27 Feb 2019
The effect on the household consumption price index from possible sources of error in capturing digital products depends on the weight of the affected products. To calculate upper bounds for this effect, we apply weights based on the average...
Based on a production-theoretic framework, we measure the effects of real output prices, primary inputs, multi-factor productivity growth, and depreciation on Korea’s real net income growth over the past 30 years. The empirical analysis is based on a...
Measuring the Joint Distribution of Household's Income, Consumption and Wealth Using Nested Atkinson Measures
Nicolas Ruiz
10 Nov 2011
Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households. income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multidimensional extension of the...
Measuring the Stock of Human Capital for Comparative Analysis
Gang Liu
10 Oct 2011
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the first phase of the OECD human capital project. In so doing, it shows the feasibility of applying the lifetime income approach to measuring human capital for comparative analysis, both across countries and...
Measuring the impact of businesses on people’s well-being and sustainability
Michal Shinwell and Efrat Shamir
09 Nov 2018
Businesses have a significant impact on people’s economic and social conditions, as well as on environmental outcomes. This paper presents an overview of the various kinds of initiatives aimed at measuring or reporting on business’ impact, or certain...
More than the Sum of their Parts: Valuing Environmental Quality by Combining Life Satisfaction Surveys and GIS Data
Jérôme Silva and Zachary Brown
10 Apr 2013
While environmental economics studies using stated life satisfaction data have been gaining attention, much of this body of work remains exploratory. In this study we contribute to this emerging body of research by combining OECD survey data from...