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No. 2011/03 | 13 Oct 2011 |
Working Party on Financial Statistics: Proceedings of the Workshop on Securitisation
This Statistics Working Paper includes the documents that were presented during the various sessions of the Workshop on Securitisation, held in Madrid on 27-28 May 2010, as well as summaries at the beginning of each section. The Workshop brought... |
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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. 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. 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. 2012/03 | 21 May 2012 |
What Makes for a Better Life?
This paper uses data from the Gallup World Poll to explore the determinants of subjective well-being. The paper builds on the existing literature on the determinants of subjective well-being in three areas. First, the paper systematically examines... |
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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. 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. 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. 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. 2018/11 | 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. 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. 2010/02 | 28 Apr 2010 |
Towards Measuring the Volume Output of Education and Health Services
The measurement of volumes of health and education services constitutes a challenge for national accountants and price statisticians. In the past, such services have typically been measured by the inputs used to provide them but such an approach... |
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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. 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. 2019/02 | 20 Sept 2019 |
The economy of well-being
As well-being has matured as a statistical and measurement agenda, it has become increasingly relevant as a “compass” for policy, with a growing number of countries using well-being metrics to guide decision-making and inform budgetary processes. One... |
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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. 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. 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. 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. 2008/04 | 21 Mar 2008 |
The OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators
This paper outlines in detail the methodology and statistical processes used for compiling the outputs of the OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators. This new System has been developed by the OECD in response to concerns from 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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Working Party on Financial Statistics: Proceedings of the Workshop on Securitisation
Michèle Chavoix-Mannato
13 Oct 2011
This Statistics Working Paper includes the documents that were presented during the various sessions of the Workshop on Securitisation, held in Madrid on 27-28 May 2010, as well as summaries at the beginning of each section. The Workshop brought...
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,...
What matters the most to people?
Carlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini and 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...
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...
What Makes for a Better Life?
Romina Boarini, Margherita Comola, Conal Smith, Robert Manchin and Femke de Keulenaer
21 May 2012
This paper uses data from the Gallup World Poll to explore the determinants of subjective well-being. The paper builds on the existing literature on the determinants of subjective well-being in three areas. First, the paper systematically examines...
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...
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...
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...
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 and 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...
Towards global SEEA Air Emission Accounts
Florian Flachenecker, Emmanuelle Guidetti and 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).
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...
Towards Measuring the Volume Output of Education and Health Services
Paul Schreyer
28 Apr 2010
The measurement of volumes of health and education services constitutes a challenge for national accountants and price statisticians. In the past, such services have typically been measured by the inputs used to provide them but such an approach...
Time use surveys and experienced well-being in France and the United States
Sarah Flèche and 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...
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...
The economy of well-being
Ana Llena-Nozal, Neil Martin and Fabrice Murtin
20 Sept 2019
As well-being has matured as a statistical and measurement agenda, it has become increasingly relevant as a “compass” for policy, with a growing number of countries using well-being metrics to guide decision-making and inform budgetary processes. One...
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...
The accuracy of measures of institutional trust in household surveys
Santiago González and 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...
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...
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...
The OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators
Richard McKenzie and David Brackfield
21 Mar 2008
This paper outlines in detail the methodology and statistical processes used for compiling the outputs of the OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators. This new System has been developed by the OECD in response to concerns from the...