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Third Joint European Commission-OECD Workshop on International Development of Business and Consumer Tendency Surveys, Brussels, 12 - 13 November 2007

The main objective of the two day workshop was to discuss work carried out in the framework of the OECD task forces on the priority tasks identified at the second joint European Commission - OECD Workshop on International Development of Business and Consumer Tendency Surveys held in Brussels in November 2005 and subsequent development work defined at the 2006 OECD workshop in Rome.

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This is a practical manual on the design and implementation of business tendency surveys, on the interpretation of the results from such surveys and on their use for economic analysis and forecasting.

Business Tendency Surveys: A Handbook

The aim of the "OECD - CIRET Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis" is the exchange of knowledge and information on the theory and operation of business and economic cycle research, including both measurement and analytical aspects.

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