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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. 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. 2018/12 | 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. 2018/11 | 03 Dec 2018 |
Towards global SEEA Air Emission Accounts
This paper describes and evaluates the OECD methodology to estimate Air Emission Accounts (AEAs) for carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), in line with the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA). |
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No. 2018/10 | 16 Nov 2018 |
A long-term perspective on the development experience of emerging and industrialised economies
This paper describes development patterns beyond GDP in a long-term historical perspective. It revisits the discussion on the goals of development in light of the current discussions on ‘Beyond GDP’, provides evidence on GDP and well-being outcomes... |
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No. 2018/09 | 12 Nov 2018 |
Diversity statistics in the OECD
Data on ethnic, racial and indigenous identity can help render certain minorities statistically visible, and expose potential discrimination and inequalities. This paper systematically reviews diversity data collection practices in OECD 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. 2018/07 | 07 Nov 2018 |
Policy use of well-being metrics
The last decade has seen major advances in the measurement of well-being in national statistics – but what are governments doing to incorporate these metrics and frameworks into policy decision making? This paper describes the progress made in many... |
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No. 2018/06 | 29 Oct 2018 |
Productivity measurement, R&D assets and mark-ups in OECD countries
A key feature of the 2008 revision of the System of National Accounts was the treatment of R&D expenditure as investment. The question arises whether the standard approach towards accounting for growth contribution of assets is justified given the... |
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No. 2018/05 | 27 Sept 2018 |
Child well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals
This paper summarises available evidence on the distance that OECD countries need to travel in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for children and young people. More than 50 indicators are included in this analysis,... |
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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. 2018/03 | 24 Jul 2018 |
What matters the most to people?
The OECD Better Life Index is an interactive composite index that aggregates average measures of country’s well-being outcomes through weights defined by users. This paper studies these weights by analysing the responses given by close to 130 000... |
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No. 2018/02 | 30 Jun 2018 |
Trust and its determinants
This paper describes the results of an international initiative on trust (Trustlab) run in six OECD countries between November 2016 and November 2017 (France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Slovenia and the United States). Trustlab combines cutting-edge... |
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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. 2017/11 | 07 Nov 2017 |
The accuracy of measures of institutional trust in household surveys
A key policy concern in recent years has been the decline in levels of trust by citizen in public institutions. Trust is one of the foundations upon which the legitimacy and sustainability of political systems are built. It is crucial to the... |
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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. 2017/09 | 21 Jul 2017 |
Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth?
The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of measured... |
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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. 2017/07 | 06 Jul 2017 |
Time use surveys and experienced well-being in France and the United States
The last decade has seen a sustained surge of interest in measures of subjective well-being on the part of economists and other social scientists. The vast majority of the academic literature on subjective well-being focuses on measures of life... |
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No. 2017/06 | 05 May 2017 |
Access to new data sources for statistics
New data sources, commonly referred to as “Big Data”, have attracted growing interest from National Statistical Institutes. They have the potential to complement official and more conventional statistics used, for instance, to determine progress... |
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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)
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Measuring consumer inflation in a digital economy
Marshall Reinsdorf et 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...
Inequalities in emerging economies
Carlotta Balestra, Ana Llena-Nozal, Fabrice Murtin, Elena Tosetto et 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...
International productivity gaps
Ashley Ward, María Belén Zinni et 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...
Towards global SEEA Air Emission Accounts
Florian Flachenecker, Emmanuelle Guidetti et Pierre-Alain Pionnier
03 Dec 2018
This paper describes and evaluates the OECD methodology to estimate Air Emission Accounts (AEAs) for carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), in line with the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA).
A long-term perspective on the development experience of emerging and industrialised economies
Auke Rijpma, Jan Luiten van Zanden et Marco Mira d’Ercole
16 Nov 2018
This paper describes development patterns beyond GDP in a long-term historical perspective. It revisits the discussion on the goals of development in light of the current discussions on ‘Beyond GDP’, provides evidence on GDP and well-being outcomes...
Diversity statistics in the OECD
Carlotta Balestra et Lara Fleischer
12 Nov 2018
Data on ethnic, racial and indigenous identity can help render certain minorities statistically visible, and expose potential discrimination and inequalities. This paper systematically reviews diversity data collection practices in OECD countries and...
Measuring the impact of businesses on people’s well-being and sustainability
Michal Shinwell et 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...
Policy use of well-being metrics
Carrie Exton et Michal Shinwell
07 Nov 2018
The last decade has seen major advances in the measurement of well-being in national statistics – but what are governments doing to incorporate these metrics and frameworks into policy decision making? This paper describes the progress made in many...
Productivity measurement, R&D assets and mark-ups in OECD countries
Paul Schreyer et Belen Zinni
29 Oct 2018
A key feature of the 2008 revision of the System of National Accounts was the treatment of R&D expenditure as investment. The question arises whether the standard approach towards accounting for growth contribution of assets is justified given the...
Child well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals
David Marguerit, Guillaume Cohen et Carrie Exton
27 Sept 2018
This paper summarises available evidence on the distance that OECD countries need to travel in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for children and young people. More than 50 indicators are included in this analysis,...
Including unpaid household activities
Peter van de Ven, Jorrit Zwijnenburg et 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....
What matters the most to people?
Carlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini et Elena Tosetto
24 Jul 2018
The OECD Better Life Index is an interactive composite index that aggregates average measures of country’s well-being outcomes through weights defined by users. This paper studies these weights by analysing the responses given by close to 130 000...
Trust and its determinants
Fabrice Murtin, Lara Fleischer, Vincent Siegerink, Arnstein Aassve, Yann Algan, Romina Boarini, Santiago González, Zsuzsanna Lonti, Gianluca Grimalda, Rafael Hortala Vallve, Soonhee Kim, David Lee, Louis Putterman et Conal Smith
30 Jun 2018
This paper describes the results of an international initiative on trust (Trustlab) run in six OECD countries between November 2016 and November 2017 (France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Slovenia and the United States). Trustlab combines cutting-edge...
Inequalities in household wealth across OECD countries
Carlotta Balestra et 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...
The accuracy of measures of institutional trust in household surveys
Santiago González et Conal Smith
07 Nov 2017
A key policy concern in recent years has been the decline in levels of trust by citizen in public institutions. Trust is one of the foundations upon which the legitimacy and sustainability of political systems are built. It is crucial to the...
Measures of interpersonal trust
Ryan E. Carlin, Gregory J. Love et 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...
Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth?
Nadim Ahmad, Jennifer Ribarsky et Marshall Reinsdorf
21 Jul 2017
The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of measured...
Indicators on global value chains
Nadim Ahmad, Timon Bohn, Nanno Mulder, Marcel Vaillant et 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...
Time use surveys and experienced well-being in France and the United States
Sarah Flèche et Conal Smith
06 Jul 2017
The last decade has seen a sustained surge of interest in measures of subjective well-being on the part of economists and other social scientists. The vast majority of the academic literature on subjective well-being focuses on measures of life...
Access to new data sources for statistics
Thilo Klein et Stefaan Verhulst
05 May 2017
New data sources, commonly referred to as “Big Data”, have attracted growing interest from National Statistical Institutes. They have the potential to complement official and more conventional statistics used, for instance, to determine progress...