STAN Indicators 2009 database highlights vital trends in industrial structure and performance for all OECD countries and various country groups, providing analysts and researchers with a comprehensive tool for analysis. This detailed data set presents annual indicators addressing themes such as: international trade, employment and productivity, industrial composition, business enterprise R&D and investment which are presented by industry (manufacturing, real estate, textiles). It allows users to focus on productivity growth, competitiveness and general structural change, while furnishing sufficient detail to enable users to isolate high-technology sectors and make comparisons across countries. Data are presented from 1970 onwards with annual datapoints.

The OECD's ANBERD database presents comprehensive and internationally comparable time-series on industrial R&D expenditures with respect to the ISIC Revesion 3. Series are published from 1987 to 2009 (up to 2010 in few cases) for 32 OECD countries and 6 non-member economies. Data for other countries (Denmark and Sweden) will be added as they become available. The ANBERD database presents industrial R&D expenditure data broken down in 60 manufacturing and services sectors for OECD countries and selected non-member economies. The reported data are in ISIC Revision 3.1, start from 1987 and are expressed in national currencies as well as in PPP US dollars, both at current and constant prices.