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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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... |
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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. 2016/08 | 25 May 2016 |
The use of short-term indicators and survey data for predicting turning points in economic activity
After reviewing the main features of the statistics available in the MEI to inform policy makers, this paper discusses the performance of the CLIs during the Great Recession. This performance is assessed using both ex-post and real-time analyses. The... |
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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. 2016/06 | 20 May 2016 |
The drivers of differences between growth in GDP and household adjusted disposable income in OECD countries
Growth in household income has evolved differently from gross domestic product (GDP) in most OECD countries over the last eighteen years. Using the wealth of information available in the System of National Accounts, this paper provides an assessment... |
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No. 2016/05 | 11 Oct 2016 |
Multi-dimensional Living Standards
We compute a distribution-adjusted welfare measure that aggregates outcomes in three dimensions of well-being, namely income, employment and longevity. Aggregation weights reflect preferences of people on these dimensions. The welfare measure is... |
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No. 2016/04 | 20 May 2016 |
Unemployment, temporary work and subjective well-being
This paper investigates the extent to which unemployment and temporary work – two forms of labour market insecurity – affect different aspects of subjective well-being (i.e. life satisfaction, psychological well-being and satisfaction with... |
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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. 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. 2016/01 | 26 Feb 2016 |
Where is inclusive growth happening? Mapping multi-dimensional living standards in OECD regions
This paper applies the Inclusive Growth framework to the OECD Regional Well-being Database in order to compute multidimensional living standards (MDLS) among OECD regions from the early 2000s to 2012. MDLS are based on the equivalent income approach,... |
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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. 2015/07 | 10 Dec 2015 |
Towards a Distribution-Sensitive Better Life Index
The Better Life Index was introduced by the OECD as a tool to chart the multi-dimensional well-being of OECD member countries, Brazil and the Russian Federation. However, the Better Life Index relies only on aggregate country-level indicators, and... |
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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. 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. 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... |
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The use of short-term indicators and survey data for predicting turning points in economic activity
Roberto Astolfi, Michela Gamba, Emmanuelle Guidetti and Pierre-Alain Pionnier
25 May 2016
After reviewing the main features of the statistics available in the MEI to inform policy makers, this paper discusses the performance of the CLIs during the Great Recession. This performance is assessed using both ex-post and real-time analyses. The...
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...
The drivers of differences between growth in GDP and household adjusted disposable income in OECD countries
Jennifer Ribarsky, Changku Kang and Esther Bolton
20 May 2016
Growth in household income has evolved differently from gross domestic product (GDP) in most OECD countries over the last eighteen years. Using the wealth of information available in the System of National Accounts, this paper provides an assessment...
Multi-dimensional Living Standards
Romina Boarini, Fabrice Murtin, Paul Schreyer and Marc Fleurbaey
11 Oct 2016
We compute a distribution-adjusted welfare measure that aggregates outcomes in three dimensions of well-being, namely income, employment and longevity. Aggregation weights reflect preferences of people on these dimensions. The welfare measure is...
Unemployment, temporary work and subjective well-being
Hande Inanc
20 May 2016
This paper investigates the extent to which unemployment and temporary work – two forms of labour market insecurity – affect different aspects of subjective well-being (i.e. life satisfaction, psychological well-being and satisfaction with...
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...
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...
Where is inclusive growth happening? Mapping multi-dimensional living standards in OECD regions
Paolo Veneri and Fabrice Murtin
26 Feb 2016
This paper applies the Inclusive Growth framework to the OECD Regional Well-being Database in order to compute multidimensional living standards (MDLS) among OECD regions from the early 2000s to 2012. MDLS are based on the equivalent income approach,...
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...
Towards a Distribution-Sensitive Better Life Index
Koen Decancq
10 Dec 2015
The Better Life Index was introduced by the OECD as a tool to chart the multi-dimensional well-being of OECD member countries, Brazil and the Russian Federation. However, the Better Life Index relies only on aggregate country-level indicators, and...
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...
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...
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...