Main Economic Indicators (MEI) - Information for Users of MEI Electronic Data Products

Inventory of series available in MEI electronic data products
Latest issue of the MEI Database Inventory

MEI Database Notes for: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

2009

November 2009
Octobre 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
2008
December 2008		CLI series affected by changes (xls)
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008		Former zone aggregates (xls)
January 2008
2007
December 2007		New zone aggregates (xls)
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007		European Union series for June MEI (xls) Relative Unit Labour Costs in Manufacturing (xls) Balance of Payments series (xls)
May 2007		New European Union series (xls)
April 2007
March 2007		New Quarterly Unit Labour Costs series (xls) Introduction of quarterly Unit Labour Cost indicators (pdf)
February 2007
January 2007

2006

December 2006		Introducing OECD Standardised Business and Consumer ConfidenceIndicators and Zone Aggregates (pdf)
November 2006		New series and code changes for Major Six OECD non-member countries (xls)
October 2006		Suppression of Basic structural statistics table (pdf)
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006		Labour force series changes (xls)
April 2006		New CLIs for these 12 countries (xls) Labour force series changes (xls)
March 2006		New series in CD-Rom (xls) Forthcoming code changes for labour force series (xls)
February 2006
January 2006
2005 December 2005
November 2005
October 2005		Changes to the MEI labour compensation series (xls) Changes to the MEI balance of payments series (xls)
September 2005		Changes to the MEI labour compensation series (xls)
August 2005
July 2005		Changes to the MEI “Real Indicators” Series (pdf) List of affected series (xls)
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005		Planned Changes to the MEI Hourly Earnings Subject Table (pdf)
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005

2004 December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004		List of all changes (xls) to OECD main country grouping series, indicating series which have been discontinued and where continuing series have had changes made to their subject codes.
June 2004		List of series (xls) affected by changes for EU countries business and consumer opinion surveys
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004		List of new series for Business and Consumer Opinion Surveys (xls) included in the March issue of the OECD Main Economic Indicators. List of Main Economic Indicator Series (xls) Affected by Revisions in Linking Methodology.
February 2004
January 2004

2003 December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003
May 2003
April 2003		New National Accounts Series included in the Main Economic Indicators database. Suppressed National Accounts Series from the Main Economic Indicators database
March 2003
February 2003
January 2003

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