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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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No. 2017/05 | 11 Apr 2017 |
A Primer on Government-Sponsored Pension Schemes in the National Accounts and their Impact on the Interpretation of Government Debt Statistics
Government debt has many characteristics and thus cannot be fully captured by one indicator. There are several different ways of defining government debt, and each definition can lead to different interpretations of a government’s financial... |
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No. 2017/04 | 16 Mar 2017 |
Estimating Transport and Insurance Costs of International Trade
Although the costs associated with the international transport and insurance of merchandise trade are an important determinant of the volume and geography of international trade, remarkably little (official) data exist. Combining the largest and most... |
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No. 2017/03 | 11 Mar 2017 |
Governance statistics in OECD countries and beyond
The paper provides a first assessment of the range of governance statistics that are available in OECD countries, reaching three main conclusions. First, while several statistics relating to various aspects of governance are already available, they... |
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No. 2016/10 | 28 Jan 2017 |
Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework
In 2011, an Expert Group was launched to carry out a feasibility study on the compilation of distributional measures of income, consumption and wealth across household groups consistent with national accounts data. This group developed a methodology... |
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No. 2017/01 | 28 Jan 2017 |
Has the Labour Share Declined?
We revisit the issue of how best to measure the labour and capital shares in OECD economies, distinguishing between production- and income-based perspectives. The former adopts a producer perspective with gross income as a reference: it uses a... |
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No. 2017/02 | 14 Jan 2017 |
Inequalities in longevity by education in OECD countries
This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data on mortality rates by age, gender, educationals attainment and for, 17 countries, cause of death, were collected from national... |
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No. 2016/09 | 17 Dec 2016 |
A Review of General Social Surveys
Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking at the diverse and multidimensional experiences and living conditions of people. Measuring well-being and progress is a key... |
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No. 2016/05 | 11 Oct 2016 |
Multi-dimensional Living Standards
We compute a distribution-adjusted welfare measure that aggregates outcomes in three dimensions of well-being, namely income, employment and longevity. Aggregation weights reflect preferences of people on these dimensions. The welfare measure is... |
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No. 2016/07 | 17 Jun 2016 |
Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy
Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer... |
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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. 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. 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. 2016/03 | 13 May 2016 |
Big Data Measures of Well-Being
We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being... |
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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. 2016/02 | 26 Feb 2016 |
Economic Theory and Practical Lessons for Measuring Equality of Opportunities
The development of a dashboard of statistics for the monitoring of equality of opportunity should recognize important lessons from economic theory: first, descriptive statistics associated with intergenerational mobility do not speak directly to... |
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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Measures of interpersonal trust
Ryan E. Carlin, Gregory J. Love and 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 and 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 and 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 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...
Access to new data sources for statistics
Thilo Klein and 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...
A Primer on Government-Sponsored Pension Schemes in the National Accounts and their Impact on the Interpretation of Government Debt Statistics
Paul Goebel
11 Apr 2017
Government debt has many characteristics and thus cannot be fully captured by one indicator. There are several different ways of defining government debt, and each definition can lead to different interpretations of a government’s financial...
Estimating Transport and Insurance Costs of International Trade
Guannan Miao and Fabienne Fortanier
16 Mar 2017
Although the costs associated with the international transport and insurance of merchandise trade are an important determinant of the volume and geography of international trade, remarkably little (official) data exist. Combining the largest and most...
Governance statistics in OECD countries and beyond
Santiago González, Lara Fleischer and Marco Mira d’Ercole
11 Mar 2017
The paper provides a first assessment of the range of governance statistics that are available in OECD countries, reaching three main conclusions. First, while several statistics relating to various aspects of governance are already available, they...
Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework
Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Sophie Bournot and Federico Giovannelli
28 Jan 2017
In 2011, an Expert Group was launched to carry out a feasibility study on the compilation of distributional measures of income, consumption and wealth across household groups consistent with national accounts data. This group developed a methodology...
Has the Labour Share Declined?
Taehyoung Cho, Soobin Hwang and Paul Schreyer
28 Jan 2017
We revisit the issue of how best to measure the labour and capital shares in OECD economies, distinguishing between production- and income-based perspectives. The former adopts a producer perspective with gross income as a reference: it uses a...
Inequalities in longevity by education in OECD countries
Fabrice Murtin, Johan Mackenbach, Domantas Jasilionis and Marco Mira d’Ercole
14 Jan 2017
This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data on mortality rates by age, gender, educationals attainment and for, 17 countries, cause of death, were collected from national...
A Review of General Social Surveys
Lara Fleischer, Conal Smith and Carine Viac
17 Dec 2016
Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking at the diverse and multidimensional experiences and living conditions of people. Measuring well-being and progress is a key...
Multi-dimensional Living Standards
Romina Boarini, Fabrice Murtin, Paul Schreyer and Marc Fleurbaey
11 Oct 2016
We compute a distribution-adjusted welfare measure that aggregates outcomes in three dimensions of well-being, namely income, employment and longevity. Aggregation weights reflect preferences of people on these dimensions. The welfare measure is...
Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy
Nadim Ahmad and Paul Schreyer
17 Jun 2016
Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer...
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 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...
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...
Big Data Measures of Well-Being
Yann Algan, Elizabeth Beasley, Florian Guyot, Kazuhito Higa, Fabrice Murtin and Claudia Senik
13 May 2016
We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being...
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,...
Economic Theory and Practical Lessons for Measuring Equality of Opportunities
Miles Corak
26 Feb 2016
The development of a dashboard of statistics for the monitoring of equality of opportunity should recognize important lessons from economic theory: first, descriptive statistics associated with intergenerational mobility do not speak directly to...