In addition to monthly macro-economic level data, the OECD Secretariat provides OECD economists and Member countries' analysts and policy makers with a wide range of detailed structural and short-term statistics relating to industry and services in OECD Member countries.

Changes over the last two decades in the economic structure in most countries has resulted in the need for reliable and comparable statistics and policy-relevant indicators in traditional activities of the industrial sectors as well as in growing areas of the economy such as services.

The OECD is involved in a number of international statistical meetings on the pertinence and availability of comparable statistics in OECD Member countries, in the field of business statistics and national accounts, in co-operation with other International Organisations (UNO, UNIDO, Eurostat...).

The OECD collects and publishes official detailed data on industry and services classified according to ISIC Revision3:
- structural statistics , including enterprise data by size class;
- short-term statistics including business tendency survey results;
- annual national accounts based data: Structural analysis database; National accounts of OECD countries;
- birth, death, survival and high-growth rates.