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No. 2024/07 | 05 Sept 2024 |
Towards a better understanding of data-intensive firms in the United Kingdom
By combining information from online job postings with firm-level financial data provided by Orbis, as well as firm-level merchandise trade data, this paper seeks to get a deeper understanding of the characteristics and performance of data-intensive... |
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No. 2024/06 | 06 Aug 2024 |
The composition of labour input
Composition Adjusted-Labour Input (CALI) measures account for workers’ differences in skills and productive capacity. This study reviews the most relevant literature to have produced CALI estimates to date and presents a generic approach to produce... |
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No. 2024/05 | 28 Jun 2024 |
CIF/FOB margins
This paper presents the 2024 version of the OECD International Transport and Insurance Cost of Merchandise Trade (ITIC) database, offering insights into bilateral international transport and insurance costs across more than 200 countries and their... |
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No. 2024/04 | 26 Jun 2024 |
Seasonal adjustment of CPIs during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
This paper examines the presence of seasonality in CPI in 36 OECD economies that provide monthly CPI data and reviews the properties of standard methods, namely X-13 and TRAMO-SEATS, in performing the adjustment. Evidence from statistical tests... |
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No. 2024/03 | 13 Jun 2024 |
Greenhouse gas emissions data
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data is essential for tracking progress towards the Paris Agreement’s global temperature goals. In addition to the emissions inventories based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines, which are used... |
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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. 2024/01 | 02 Feb 2024 |
The OECD-UNSD Multinational Enterprise Information Platform
The OECD and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) have developed jointly the new Multinational Enterprise Information Platform (MEIP). MEIP is built on past OECD and UN efforts to compile statistics on the scale and scope of the... |
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No. 2023/05 | 18 Sept 2023 |
What is the role of data in jobs in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States?
This paper estimates the data intensity of occupations/sectors (i.e. the share of job postings per occupation/sector related to the production of data) using natural language processing (NLP) on job advertisements in the United Kingdom, Canada and... |
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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. 2023/03 | 06 Sept 2023 |
Nowcasting trade in value added indicators
Trade in value added (TiVA) indicators are increasingly used to monitor countries’ integration into global supply chains. However, they are published with a significant lag - often two or three years - which reduces their relevance for monitoring... |
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No. 2023/02 | 23 Jun 2023 |
Public policy uses of the SEEA stocks and flows accounts
The System of Environmental Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF) was adopted in 2012. In one decade, it has expanded to 92 countries, including most OECD countries. However, there is still work to be done by national statistics producers... |
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No. 2023/01 | 09 Jan 2023 |
Sensitivity of capital and MFP measurement to asset depreciation patterns and initial capital stock estimates
This paper discusses the sensitivity of capital and multifactor productivity (MFP) measurement to asset depreciation patterns and initial capital stock estimates. Applying the same depreciation rates in the US as in other G7 countries would reduce... |
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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. 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. 2022/02 | 18 Feb 2022 |
Recent trends in transport and insurance costs and estimates at disaggregated product level
This paper updates the OECD International Transport and Insurance Cost (ITIC) of Merchandise Trade database, which covers more than 180 countries and partners, and over 1000 products from 1995 to 2020. Transport and insurance costs, also known as... |
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No. 2022/01 | 17 Feb 2022 |
Using unit value indices as proxies for international merchandise trade prices
In light of the need for detailed and timely internationally comparable trade price indices, this paper describes a multi-tiered methodology to mitigate many of the empirical challenges associated with using customs data, to provide more robust... |
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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. 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. 2020/05 | 11 Dec 2020 |
New data collection on accrued-to-date social insurance pension entitlements in a national accounts context
This paper analyses results on social insurance pension liabilities and entitlements across OECD countries, on the basis of a new data collection. In addition to information on employment-related schemes (covered in the central framework of the... |
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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Towards a better understanding of data-intensive firms in the United Kingdom
Julia Schmidt, Graham Pilgrim and Annabelle Mourougane
05 Sept 2024
By combining information from online job postings with firm-level financial data provided by Orbis, as well as firm-level merchandise trade data, this paper seeks to get a deeper understanding of the characteristics and performance of data-intensive...
The composition of labour input
Ashley Ward and Belen Zinni
06 Aug 2024
Composition Adjusted-Labour Input (CALI) measures account for workers’ differences in skills and productive capacity. This study reviews the most relevant literature to have produced CALI estimates to date and presents a generic approach to produce...
CIF/FOB margins
Andres Fiallos, Antonella Liberatore and Steven Cassimon
28 Jun 2024
This paper presents the 2024 version of the OECD International Transport and Insurance Cost of Merchandise Trade (ITIC) database, offering insights into bilateral international transport and insurance costs across more than 200 countries and their...
Seasonal adjustment of CPIs during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Tom Arend, Jarmila Botev, Emmanuelle Guidetti, Annabelle Mourougane and Minsu Park
26 Jun 2024
This paper examines the presence of seasonality in CPI in 36 OECD economies that provide monthly CPI data and reviews the properties of standard methods, namely X-13 and TRAMO-SEATS, in performing the adjustment. Evidence from statistical tests...
Greenhouse gas emissions data
Santaro Sakata, Abenezer Zeleke Aklilu and Rodrigo Pizarro
13 Jun 2024
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data is essential for tracking progress towards the Paris Agreement’s global temperature goals. In addition to the emissions inventories based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines, which are used...
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...
The OECD-UNSD Multinational Enterprise Information Platform
Graham Pilgrim and Shirly Ang
02 Feb 2024
The OECD and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) have developed jointly the new Multinational Enterprise Information Platform (MEIP). MEIP is built on past OECD and UN efforts to compile statistics on the scale and scope of the...
What is the role of data in jobs in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States?
Julia Schmidt, Graham Pilgrim and Annabelle Mourougane
18 Sept 2023
This paper estimates the data intensity of occupations/sectors (i.e. the share of job postings per occupation/sector related to the production of data) using natural language processing (NLP) on job advertisements in the United Kingdom, Canada and...
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....
Nowcasting trade in value added indicators
Annabelle Mourougane, Polina Knutsson, Rodrigo Pazos, Julia Schmidt and Francesco Palermo
06 Sept 2023
Trade in value added (TiVA) indicators are increasingly used to monitor countries’ integration into global supply chains. However, they are published with a significant lag - often two or three years - which reduces their relevance for monitoring...
Public policy uses of the SEEA stocks and flows accounts
Daniel Clarke, Santaro Sakata and Sarah Barahona
23 Jun 2023
The System of Environmental Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF) was adopted in 2012. In one decade, it has expanded to 92 countries, including most OECD countries. However, there is still work to be done by national statistics producers...
Sensitivity of capital and MFP measurement to asset depreciation patterns and initial capital stock estimates
Pierre-Alain Pionnier, María Belén Zinni and Kéa Baret
09 Jan 2023
This paper discusses the sensitivity of capital and multifactor productivity (MFP) measurement to asset depreciation patterns and initial capital stock estimates. Applying the same depreciation rates in the US as in other G7 countries would reduce...
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...
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...
Recent trends in transport and insurance costs and estimates at disaggregated product level
Guannan Miao and Enrico Wegner
18 Feb 2022
This paper updates the OECD International Transport and Insurance Cost (ITIC) of Merchandise Trade database, which covers more than 180 countries and partners, and over 1000 products from 1995 to 2020. Transport and insurance costs, also known as...
Using unit value indices as proxies for international merchandise trade prices
Guannan Miao and Enrico Wegner
17 Feb 2022
In light of the need for detailed and timely internationally comparable trade price indices, this paper describes a multi-tiered methodology to mitigate many of the empirical challenges associated with using customs data, to provide more robust...
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...
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...
New data collection on accrued-to-date social insurance pension entitlements in a national accounts context
Catherine Girodet, Haukur Gudjonsson, Matthias Wicho, Bettina Wistrom and Jorrit Zwijnenburg
11 Dec 2020
This paper analyses results on social insurance pension liabilities and entitlements across OECD countries, on the basis of a new data collection. In addition to information on employment-related schemes (covered in the central framework of the...