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No. 2012/01 | 31 Jan 2012 |
Exploring Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing in OECD Countries
The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average. The results, which are in line with... |
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No. 2011/09 | 22 Nov 2011 |
New Understanding and Insights from Time-Series Data Based on Two Generic Measures
Time distance is an innovative approach for looking at time-series data. Expressed in time units, the approach is easy to understand and provides a useful complement to existing methods. The time distance approach compares time series in the... |
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No. 2011/08 | 21 Nov 2011 |
Linking Policies to Well-Being Outcomes Through Micro-Simulation
A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for... |
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No. 2011/05 | 10 Nov 2011 |
Measuring the Joint Distribution of Household's Income, Consumption and Wealth Using Nested Atkinson Measures
Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households. income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multidimensional extension of the... |
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No. 2011/07 | 14 Oct 2011 |
Incorporating Estimates of Household Production of Non-Market Services into International Comparisons of Material Well-Being
This paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, in order to better compare material well-being across countries. The work is being conducted under the aegis... |
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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. 2011/06 | 10 Oct 2011 |
Measuring the Stock of Human Capital for Comparative Analysis
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the first phase of the OECD human capital project. In so doing, it shows the feasibility of applying the lifetime income approach to measuring human capital for comparative analysis, both across countries and... |
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No. 2011/04 | 27 May 2011 |
Cycle Extraction: A Comparison of the Phase-Average Trend Method, the Hodrick-Prescott and Christiano-Fitzgerald Filters
This paper reports on revision properties of different de-trending and smoothing methods (cycle estimation methods), including PAT with MCD smoothing, a double Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter and the Christiano-Fitzgerald (CF) filter. The different... |
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No. 2011/02 | 23 Feb 2011 |
A Multiplicative Masking Method for Preserving the Skewness of the Original Micro-records
Masking methods for the safe dissemination of microdata consist of distorting the original data while preserving a pre-defined set of statistical properties in the microdata. For continuous variables, available methodologies rely essentially on... |
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No. 2011/01 | 04 Feb 2011 |
Hedonic Price Indexes for Housing
Every house is different. It is important that house price indexes take account of these quality differences. Hedonic methods which express house prices as a function of a vector of characteristics (such as number of bedrooms and bathrooms, land area... |
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No. 2010/06 | 17 Nov 2010 |
Developing Societal Progress Indicators
There is a broad recognition that the development of cross-cutting, high-quality, shared, and accessible information about a society’s progress is crucial to ensure that decision-making is simultaneously responsive and responsible at all levels.... |
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No. 2010/05 | 12 Jul 2010 |
A Framework to Measure the Progress of Societies
Over the last three decades, a number of frameworks have been developed to promote and measure well-being, quality of life, human development and sustainable development. Some frameworks use a conceptual approach while others employ a consultative... |
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No. 2010/03 | 09 Jul 2010 |
Comparing Price Levels of Hospital Services Across Countries
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services consumed... |
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No. 2010/04 | 30 Jun 2010 |
Indicators of “Societal Progress”
This paper looks at different experiences in the development and use of societal progress indicator sets – at the European, national and sub-national level – with the aim of identifying useful lessons from these experiences. Five case studies are... |
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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. 2010/01 | 25 Mar 2010 |
The OECD ORBIS Database
Firm-level micro-data have become increasingly important in OECD activities not only for econometric analysis that captures heterogeneity across enterprises but also in order to conduct different and more detailed types of data aggregation (e.g. by... |
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No. 2009/03 | 23 Oct 2009 |
How Good is Trust?
This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of indicators that could better inform our understanding of societal progress. Trust is commonly viewed as a proxy indicator of social... |
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No. 2009/02 | 26 Feb 2009 |
The Final Financial Investment of French Households
This study wants to spot and analyse the “final financial instruments” in which French households’ financial savings are invested by making transparent their intermediated investments with mutual funds and life insurance corporations. It attempts to... |
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No. 2009/01 | 25 Feb 2009 |
Do Financial Systems Converge?
Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics of the continental European systems, where intermediaries are predominant. 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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Exploring Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing in OECD Countries
Sarah Fleche, Conal Smith and Piritta Sorsa
31 Jan 2012
The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average. The results, which are in line with...
New Understanding and Insights from Time-Series Data Based on Two Generic Measures
Pavle Sicherl
22 Nov 2011
Time distance is an innovative approach for looking at time-series data. Expressed in time units, the approach is easy to understand and provides a useful complement to existing methods. The time distance approach compares time series in the...
Linking Policies to Well-Being Outcomes Through Micro-Simulation
Michael Wolfson
21 Nov 2011
A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for...
Measuring the Joint Distribution of Household's Income, Consumption and Wealth Using Nested Atkinson Measures
Nicolas Ruiz
10 Nov 2011
Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households. income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multidimensional extension of the...
Incorporating Estimates of Household Production of Non-Market Services into International Comparisons of Material Well-Being
Nadim Ahmad and Seung-Hee Koh
14 Oct 2011
This paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, in order to better compare material well-being across countries. The work is being conducted under the aegis...
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...
Measuring the Stock of Human Capital for Comparative Analysis
Gang Liu
10 Oct 2011
This paper summarizes the outcomes of the first phase of the OECD human capital project. In so doing, it shows the feasibility of applying the lifetime income approach to measuring human capital for comparative analysis, both across countries and...
Cycle Extraction: A Comparison of the Phase-Average Trend Method, the Hodrick-Prescott and Christiano-Fitzgerald Filters
Ronny Nilsson and Gyorgy Gyomai
27 May 2011
This paper reports on revision properties of different de-trending and smoothing methods (cycle estimation methods), including PAT with MCD smoothing, a double Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter and the Christiano-Fitzgerald (CF) filter. The different...
A Multiplicative Masking Method for Preserving the Skewness of the Original Micro-records
Nicolas Ruiz
23 Feb 2011
Masking methods for the safe dissemination of microdata consist of distorting the original data while preserving a pre-defined set of statistical properties in the microdata. For continuous variables, available methodologies rely essentially on...
Hedonic Price Indexes for Housing
Robert Hill
04 Feb 2011
Every house is different. It is important that house price indexes take account of these quality differences. Hedonic methods which express house prices as a function of a vector of characteristics (such as number of bedrooms and bathrooms, land area...
Developing Societal Progress Indicators
Dennis Trewin and Jon Hall
17 Nov 2010
There is a broad recognition that the development of cross-cutting, high-quality, shared, and accessible information about a society’s progress is crucial to ensure that decision-making is simultaneously responsive and responsible at all levels....
A Framework to Measure the Progress of Societies
Jon Hall, Enrico Giovannini, Adolfo Morrone and Giulia Ranuzzi
12 Jul 2010
Over the last three decades, a number of frameworks have been developed to promote and measure well-being, quality of life, human development and sustainable development. Some frameworks use a conceptual approach while others employ a consultative...
Comparing Price Levels of Hospital Services Across Countries
OECD
09 Jul 2010
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services consumed...
Indicators of “Societal Progress”
Katherine Scrivens and Barbara Iasiello
30 Jun 2010
This paper looks at different experiences in the development and use of societal progress indicator sets – at the European, national and sub-national level – with the aim of identifying useful lessons from these experiences. Five case studies are...
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...
The OECD ORBIS Database
Samuel Pinto Ribeiro, Stefano Menghinello and Koen De Backer
25 Mar 2010
Firm-level micro-data have become increasingly important in OECD activities not only for econometric analysis that captures heterogeneity across enterprises but also in order to conduct different and more detailed types of data aggregation (e.g. by...
How Good is Trust?
Adolfo Morrone, Noemi Tontoranelli and Giulia Ranuzzi
23 Oct 2009
This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of indicators that could better inform our understanding of societal progress. Trust is commonly viewed as a proxy indicator of social...
The Final Financial Investment of French Households
Denis Marionnet
26 Feb 2009
This study wants to spot and analyse the “final financial instruments” in which French households’ financial savings are invested by making transparent their intermediated investments with mutual funds and life insurance corporations. It attempts to...
Do Financial Systems Converge?
Giuseppe Bruno and Riccardo De Bonis
25 Feb 2009
Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics of the continental European systems, where intermediaries are predominant. 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...