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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. 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. 2006/04 | 14 Nov 2006 |
The International comparability of Business Start-up Rates Final Report
Growing political and academic interest in entrepreneurship and business demography, and particularly the role and value of new businesses in national economies, is prompting various research projects on these topics. One of the main issues faced by... |
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No. 2006/03 | 24 Oct 2006 |
A Proposed Framework For business Demography Statistics
The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD economies. Understanding business behaviour, creative destruction and identifying successful and failing businesses, as well as... |
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No. 2006/02 | 14 Sept 2006 |
Undertaking Revisions and Real-Time Data Analysis using the OECD Main Economic Indicators Original Release Data and Revisions Database
The first releases of official statistics are often revised in subsequent releases, sometimes substantially. Such revisions can impact on policy decisions, as revisions to first published data may alter the previous assessment of the state of the... |
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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. 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. 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. 2005/03 | 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. 2005/02 | 03 Aug 2005 |
The Statistical Measurement of Services
Services are increasingly important in modern economies contributing about 68% of world economy value added in 2002 and, although at a much lower level, are increasingly traded internationally (see Table 1). These patterns of increasing importance of... |
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No. 2005/01 | 19 Jan 2005 |
OECD — China Governance Project
The purpose of this working paper is to provide an overview of recent discussions on the quality of Chinese data, and to describe and evaluate the institutional organization and methods of data compilation in China. The first part outlines key... |
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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. 2003/06 | 19 Dec 2003 |
OECD Capital Services Estimates
This document presents the concepts underlying capital services measures, describes estimation methods and produces a first set of results. It also raises a number of outstanding conceptual issues in relation to capital services measures ... |
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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. 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. 2003/03 | 18 Apr 2003 |
Statistical Developments and Strategies in the Context of E-Government
This working paper has been written as a contribution to the OECD e-government project launched in 2001, which explores how governments can best exploit information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance good governance principles and... |
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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. 2003/01 | 04 Mar 2003 |
Report of the OECD Task Force on Software Measurement in the National Accounts
This statistical working paper is the exact copy of the report of the joint OECD/Eurostat task force that was presented at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Expert Meeting. The report confirms that current estimates of software investment... |
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No. 2002/02 | 18 Apr 2002 |
Overview of Sustainable Development Indicators used by National and International Agencies
This paper presents a general overview of recent work on sustainable development indicators in OECD countries. It provides an overview of on-going work for developing “agreed” indicators that measure progress across the three dimensions of... |
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No. 2001/01 | 18 Dec 2001 |
Some Observations on International Area Aggregates
This paper deals with the construction of statistics for area or zone totals for groups of countries. It discusses various ways to construct volume and value series and reviews some of the implications for resulting indirect price indices. The paper... |
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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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...
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...
The International comparability of Business Start-up Rates Final Report
Steven Vale
14 Nov 2006
Growing political and academic interest in entrepreneurship and business demography, and particularly the role and value of new businesses in national economies, is prompting various research projects on these topics. One of the main issues faced by...
A Proposed Framework For business Demography Statistics
Nadim Ahmad
24 Oct 2006
The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD economies. Understanding business behaviour, creative destruction and identifying successful and failing businesses, as well as...
Undertaking Revisions and Real-Time Data Analysis using the OECD Main Economic Indicators Original Release Data and Revisions Database
Richard McKenzie
14 Sept 2006
The first releases of official statistics are often revised in subsequent releases, sometimes substantially. Such revisions can impact on policy decisions, as revisions to first published data may alter the previous assessment of the state of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Statistical Measurement of Services
Enrico Giovannini and William Cave
03 Aug 2005
Services are increasingly important in modern economies contributing about 68% of world economy value added in 2002 and, although at a much lower level, are increasingly traded internationally (see Table 1). These patterns of increasing importance of...
OECD — China Governance Project
Carsten A. Holz
19 Jan 2005
The purpose of this working paper is to provide an overview of recent discussions on the quality of Chinese data, and to describe and evaluate the institutional organization and methods of data compilation in China. The first part outlines key...
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...
OECD Capital Services Estimates
Paul Schreyer, Pierre-Emmanuel Bignon and Julien Dupont
19 Dec 2003
This document presents the concepts underlying capital services measures, describes estimation methods and produces a first set of results. It also raises a number of outstanding conceptual issues in relation to capital services measures ...
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,...
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...
Statistical Developments and Strategies in the Context of E-Government
Brian Finn and Enrico Giovannini
18 Apr 2003
This working paper has been written as a contribution to the OECD e-government project launched in 2001, which explores how governments can best exploit information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance good governance principles and...
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...
Report of the OECD Task Force on Software Measurement in the National Accounts
François Lequiller, Nadim Ahmad, Seppo Varjonen, William Cave and Kil-Hyo Ahn
04 Mar 2003
This statistical working paper is the exact copy of the report of the joint OECD/Eurostat task force that was presented at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Expert Meeting. The report confirms that current estimates of software investment...
Overview of Sustainable Development Indicators used by National and International Agencies
Julie L. Hass, Frode Brunvoll and Henning Hoie
18 Apr 2002
This paper presents a general overview of recent work on sustainable development indicators in OECD countries. It provides an overview of on-going work for developing “agreed” indicators that measure progress across the three dimensions of...
Some Observations on International Area Aggregates
Paul Schreyer
18 Dec 2001
This paper deals with the construction of statistics for area or zone totals for groups of countries. It discusses various ways to construct volume and value series and reviews some of the implications for resulting indirect price indices. The paper...