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The OECD Statistics Newsletter (www.oecd.org/std/statisticsnewsletter) is one means for the “OECD Statistical Network” (OSN) to find and to exchange relevant information, to know more about current activities and future plans, to reinforce cooperation between statistical agencies, and to offer OSN an opportunity to improve its effectiveness. Colleagues in agencies involved in the OECD Statistical Network and throughout the OECD itself can submit news or articles of international interest by email to STD.STATNEWS@oecd.org.
Issues: 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001
2008 Issues
Issue 41 - June 2008 - in this issue: the Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) : A new tool to address the challenges of international migration; Fourth ECB Statistics Conference, April 2008; Survey of Dynamics and Motivations for Migration in New Zealand; World Bank project to support the reform of the State Statistical System of Ukraine; Nine new countries added to the OECD System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators; Implementation of the ESA95 in Turkey and the 1998-2006 historical revision, Extract of the official note from TurkStat; plus The Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (IMF).
Issue 40 - March 2008 - in this issue: Wikigender: Initiating a bottom-up dialogue on gender statistics; 20th International Round Table on Business Survey Frames; The Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics; Business Statistics Seminar, Dublin, 26 February 2008; A new way to visualize IMF data and Independence beckons for statistics in the United Kingdom.
Issue 39 - January 2008 - In this issue: OECD Enlargement: The Role of Statistics; Newly Released Tables on International Trade in Services; New Principal European Economic Indicators Web Page; Newly Released Quarterly National Accounts datasets for non-member economies; plus the International Statistical Literacy Competition of the IASE/ISLP.
2007 Issues
Issue 38 - October 2007- In this issue: OECD Main Economic Indicators Interactive Website; Non-Profit Contribution to GDP Enormous; 8th International Trade Statistics Expert meeting and OECD-Eurostat Trade-in-Services Statistics meeting; International Comparisons of Harmonized Indexes of Consumer Prices; Working Party on Financial Statistics and Working Party on National Accounts
Issue 37 - July 2007- In this issue: OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, Istanbul, 27-30 June 2007; Meeting of the OECD Committee on Statistics, Geneva, 13-14 June 2007, Main conclusions; OECD announces release of OECD Health Data 2007 database; Implementing a Statistical data warehouse: The case for a string partnership
Issue 36 - April 2007 - In this issue: Launch of the OECD System of Unit Labour Cost Indicators; The SME Policy Index, a tool to evaluate SME policy development in the Western Balkan economies; OECD - ISTAT seminar on dynamic graphic; Exploiting the value of innovation survey micro-data for policy making: an international project; Measuring biotechnology; Is happiness measurable and what do those measures mean for policy?
Issue 35 - February 2007 - In this issue: Implementing the OECD Statistics Strategy for 2007-2008; Improving Public Confidence in Inflation Measures; SDMX conference in Washington 9-11 January 2007; Entrepreneurship Indicators Steering Group, Summary Record of the 1st Session, Rome, Italy, 5-6 December 2006
2006 Issues
Issue 34 - December 2006 - In this issue: The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies; Conference on "Patents Statistics for Policy Decision Making", Vienna, October 2006; Co-operation between China and the OECD on S&T Indicators; Workshop on Real Estate Price Indexes, Paris, 6-7 October 2006; Release of the OECD Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook; News in Brief; Recent Publications; Statistics Meetings; and the Database of the Month: EPO Worldwide Statistical Patent Database (PATSTAT).
Issue 33 - October 2006 - In this issue: Main Conclusions from the 2006 Meeting of the OECD Committee on Statistics; The OECD Trade Indicators Project an Interactive Tool for Researchers and Analysts; Annual Update of OECD Short-Term Economic Statistics Timeliness Framework; National Accounts Manual for Students; The OECD Culture Project; Launch of the ECB Statistical data Warehouse; Database of the Month: The Gender, Institutions and Development database.
Issue 32 - July 2006 - In this issue: OECD Releases "Real Time” and Revision Database; Assessing the Feasibility of Micro-Data Access; New Quarterly MEI Zone Totals for Flows of FDI, Trade in Goods, and Trade in Services; Understanding Entrepreneurship: An OECD Strategy to Develop Entrepreneurship Indicators; Euro Area and European Union Accounts for Institutional Sectors.
Issue 31 - May 2006 - In this issue: The Strategy for OECD Statistics in 2007-2008; Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services; The Luxembourg Wealth Study; Analysis of Revisions for the Index of Industrial Production; Women and Men in OECD Countries; Database of the Month: The OECD System of Information on Resources and the Environment.
Issue 30 - February 2006 - In this issue: Reforming the Indian Statistical System; An Application of SDMX Standards; Putting Civil Society on the Economic Map of the World; Composite Leading Indicators for Major OECD Non-Member Economies; Enhancing International Guidelines for Business and Consumer Opinion Surveys.
2005 Issues
Issue 29 - November 2005 - In this issue: Milestones for International Statistics; OECD STI Scoreboard 2005; Comparability of Business Start-Up Rates; Workshop on Entrepreneurship Indicators; Workshop on Productivity Measurement; Harmonisation of International Trade Data published by the OECD and Eurostat; The Database on Statistics on Enterprises by Size-Class (SEC).
Issue 28 - September 2005 - In this issue: Main conclusions from the 2005 Meeting of the OECD Committee on Statistics; First update of OECD Short-Term Economic Statistics Timeliness Framework; Management in Government: Comparative Country Data; Entrepreneurship Indicators Development at the OECD; Target Series for Monthly Real Indicators; The Mexican Monthly Services Survey.
Issue 27 - June 2005 - In this issue: Metagora: First Significant Lessons; Advances in Benchmarking and Temporal Disaggregation Techniques; OECD Health Data and Health Accounts; Development of CLIs for Major OECD Non-Member Economies; Progress on the Update of the 1993 SNA; Recent Publications; Statistics Meetings; Database of the Month: The Structural Analysis (STAN) Family of Databases
Issue 26 - April 2005- In this issue: The OECD Factbook; OECD Regions at A Glance; Media Content Production and Distribution in Japan; OECD Outreach Programme: Statistics for Non-member Countries; The Atkinson Review: Measurement of Government Output in the National Accounts; National Strategies for the Development of Statistics in Low Income Countries; Estatistik.core: Digitally linking Statistics and Accounting; New Member Country Website and Statistical Profiles
Issue 25 - February 2005 - In this issue: Outcomes of the OECD World Forum: "Statistics, Knowledge, Policy"; Revision of the Japanese CSPI; Services Statistics Coordination and Strategy; Measuring School Climate in PISA; Revisions to Quarterly GDP Estimates; OECD Statistics on the Web: Introducing the OECD.Stat Web browser; OECD introduces StatLink to its publications; Monthly Oil Statistics
2004 Issues
Issue 24 - December 2004 - In this issue: Statistical Survey of Web Content as an Indicator of Internet Development in Japan; First Results from the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Services Survey; Main Economic Indicators - Financial Statistics; Building OECD's New Statistical Information System; Access on Line Development:Free of Charge Dissemination by Eurostat; ISI Meeting 2005.
Issue 23 - October 2004 - In this issue: OECD World Forum; OECD Database on Expatriates and the Foreign Born; Recent Japanese ICT Statistics; ICT Indicators: Issues for International Cooperation; A Unique set of Statistics on Government Accounts and Financial Accounts; WTO Database; Launch of the HDRO Statistics Website; The OECD Education database.
Issue 22 - September 2004 - In this issue: "Improving Timeliness for Short-Term Economic Stats"; "Producing High Quality Long Time Series"; "Improving the Measurement and International Comparability of SMEs Data"; "Non-Observed Economy: Issues of Measurement"; "Statistics Canada's 2003 General Social Survey: An Exciting New Source of Social Capital Data"; "The restructuring of the ISAE Business Survey on the Manufacturing Sector"
Issue 21 - June 2004- In this issue: "New OECD Statistics Committee; Joint OECD-UN Trade Database Application; Recent Achievements in Measurement of the Information Society; Sensitivity Analysis: A new book; MetaStore; New IEA Website; Labour Market Statistics and more..."
Issue 20 - April 2004 - In this Issue: "OECD Forum: Statistics, Knowledge, Policy"; "Expansion of the OECD MEI Database for Business Tendency and Consumer Opinion Surveys", "Harmonisation of Government Sector Accounts"; "Measuring UK Government Output"; "Towards National Strategies for the development of Statistics"; "International Comparisons by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics"; "OECD Productivity Database"; "Implementation of the OECD's New Statistical Information System - Using a Modular Approach"
Issue 19 - February 2004 - In this issue: Services Statistics: International Development Work and Coordination"; "OECD Productivity Database"; "Revision of OECD Composite Leading Indicators"; "SourceOECD – New and Improved!"; "The Financial Accounts Database: A Revival"; "Database of the Month: Main Science and Technology Indicators"
2003 Issues
Issue 18 - December 2003 - In this issue: "Comprehensive Revision of U.S. Income and Product Accounts"; "How to Deal with Composite Indicators"; "Press Releases on Quarterly National Accounts: A Comparative Study for the Euro, the U.S and Japan"; "Fifth Edition of the IMF Balance of Payments Manual"; "Revised National Accounts for Norway"; "Access On Line Developments: The ESCB Experience"
Issue 17 - October 2003 - In this issue: "The International Comparison Program 2004: A Unique Undertaking", "Enterprise e-commerce; Measurement and Impact", "External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users", "Agriculture and Biodiversity: Developing Indicators for Policy Analysis", "Cooperation and Communication Between Statistics Finland and the and the Business Sector – A key Factor for the Quality of Statistics", "Access On Line Developments: Health Surveys in the European Union".
Issue 16 - September 2003 - In this issue: "High Level Group on Statistics"; "The Measurement of Social Capital"; "Key Development Issues for Short-term Statistics"; "Statistical Confidentiality and Microdata"; "New and Improved Version of OECD Website"; "UNECE Launches Gender Statistics Database".
Issue 15 - June 2003 - In this issue: "OECD dot.STAT"; "Joint OECD-CIRET Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis"; "US Developing New Economic Indicator of Service Industry Activity"; "StatWorks - an IT toolkit for Statistical Data Management"; "Measurement of Output, Value added and GDP in Canada and the USA: similarities and differences"; "Merchandise and Services Trade Statisticians Meet Together"; "Improving Statistics on SMEs and Entrepreneurship"; "Access on line developments: DDCN for Transition Economies".
Issue 14 - April 2003 - In this issue: "The OECD Quality Framework", "Capturing Nonprofit Institutions in National Accounts", "Measuring Statistical Capacity", "Concordances between National and International Industrial Classification", "IMF Publishes 2001 Global Portfolio Investment Survey", "Governance Indicators for Forging Development Partnerships".
Issue 13 - February 2003 - In this issue: "Reorganisation of the OECD Statistics Directorate"; "Quality Guidelines for Official Statistics (Finland)"; "Are Annual Revisions to National Accounts Cyclical?"; "Construction of a Composite Leading Indicator for Turkey"; "Recent Publication: Social Indicators"; "Database of the Month: Renewable and Waste Energy Database".
2002 Issues
Issue 12 - December 2002 - In this issue: "Short-term Economic Statistics Expert Group"; "Improving the OECD Government Finance Data"; "International Comparisons of Company Profitability"; "Timeliness and Accuracy of Consumer Price Indices"; "Encouraging Respondents in Spain"; "International Forum on Tourism Statistics"; "Database of the Month: National Accounts of OECD Countries".
Issue 11 - October 2002 - In this issue: "Four Challenges for International Statisticians"; "SDMX Moving Forward"; "Floods Ruin Czech Statistics"; "Statistics Netherlands' Approach to Social Statistics: The Social Statistical Dataset"; "New Estimation of Quarterly GDP in Japan"; "The Database of the Month: International Trade Statistics".
Issue 10 - July 2002- "Key Challenges for OECD Statistics: The view of Member countries"; "Sharp Fall in FDI flows into OECD countries in 2001"; "Population Census 2002 in Russia"; "OECD Cooperation with China"; "Online Access Developments"; "The Database of the Month: Environmental Taxes".
Issue 9 - May 2002 - "OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms"; "Developing a Strategy for a NSI: Danish Experiences"; "Integrated Statistical Information Systems"; "Data Collection from the Web using Excel"; "Korea's Development of Monthly Indices on Services Industry Output"; "The Database of the Month: Taxing Wages".
Issue 8 - March 2002 - "Eurostat's Approach to Quality"; "Improving Oil Market Transparency: the Oil Data Initiative"; "Main Economic Indicators: Comparative Methodological Analysis Series"; "Report on Statistical Programs in the U.S."; "Database of the Month: OECD Business Statistics Databases".
Issue 7 - February 2002 - "Statistics and E-government"; "Japan's New Industry Classification"; "Database of the Month: OECD Social Expenditure Database".
2001 Issues
Issue 6 - December 2001 - "Manuals on Macroeconomic Statistics"; "First Results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)"; "Developing a Common Understanding of Standard Metadata Components Using a Statistical Glossary";"Database of the Month: OECD Agrircultural Database".
Issue 5 - November 2001 - "Seasonal Adjustment methods in the European Union and Other OECD Countries"; "Italian Non-profit Institutions: a Profile"; "Telecommunications Price Indices in Japan"; "Volume Balance Sheets for Australia"; "Database of the Month: Main Economic Indicators".
Issue 4 - October 2001 - The follow-up of the EU-USA "Benchmarking Study"; "The STI Scoreboard 2001"; "Treatment of the Euro in OECD statistics"; "the Database of the Month: OECD Health Data 2001".
Issue 3 - July 2001 - "Sustainable Development Indicators"; "Environmental Accounting"; "Human Resource Information Database"; "China Labour Market Statistics";"Database of the Month: World Energy Balances".
Issue 2 - June 2001 - "Benchmarking Economic Statistics"; "ICT and E-commerce Indicators"; "Biotechnology Statistics Progress"; "System of Health Accounts"; "Database of the Month: International Development Statistics".
Issue 1 - May 2001 -"The New Economy and Measurement of GDP Growth"; "Harmonisations of Seasonal Adjustment Methods in the EU"; "Handbook for Measurement of the Non-observed Economy"; "New OECD Data on Central Government Debt"; "Database of the Month: The OECD Trade and Tariffs Database".
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