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Exploring determinants of subjective wellbeing in OECD countries: evidence from the world values survey

31-Jan-2012

Sarah Fleche, Conal Smith and Piritta Sorsa, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper N. 46- 2012/1 - 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, ...

New understanding and insights from time-series data based on two generic measures: S-Time-Distance and S-Time-Step

24-Nov-2011

Pavle Sicherl, Director of SICENTER (Socio-economic Indicators Center)

Statistics Working Paper N. 44- 2011/9 - 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 ...

Linking policies to well-being outcomes through micro-simulation

23-Nov-2011

Michael Wolfson, University of Ottawa

Statistics Working Paper N. 43- 2011/8 - This OECD Statistics Working Paper looks at four major areas of social policies– health status, literacy and learning, economic security, and economic inequality– ...

Incorporating estimates of household production of non-market services into international comparisons of material well-being

25-Oct-2011

Nadim Ahmad and Seung-Hee Koh, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper N. 42- 2011/7 - This Statistics Working Paper reports on work undertaken within the Statistics Directorate to measure the value of household production of non-market services, ...

Measuring the stock of human capital for comparative analysis: an application of the lifetime income approach to selected countries

13-Oct-2011

Gang Liu, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper N. 41- 2011/6 - 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 ...

Measuring the joint distribution of household’s income, consumption and wealth using nested Atkinson measures

12-Oct-2011

Nicolas Ruiz, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper N. 40- 2011/5 - Following recommendations from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission (2009), this OECD Statistics Working Paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure ...

Cycle extraction: a comparison of the phase-average trend method, the Hodrick-Prescott and Christiano-Fitzgerald filters

31-May-2011

Gyorgy Gyomai, OECD Statistics Directorate and Ronny Nilsson

Statistics Working Paper N. 39- 2011/4 - This paper reports on revision properties of different de-trending and smoothing methods (cycle estimation methods), including PAT with MCD smoothing, a double ...

Proceedings of the Workshop on Securitisation, held in Madrid, on 27-28 May 2010

30-May-2011

Michèle Chavoix-Mannato, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper N. 38- 2011/3 - 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 ...

A multiplicative masking method for preserving the skewness of the original micro-records

23-Feb-2011

Nicolas Ruiz, OECD Statistics Directorate

Statistics Working Paper N. 37- 2011/2 - This paper presents a simple multiplicative masking method that preserves skewness of the original data while offering a sufficient level of disclosure risk control. ...

Hedonic price indexes for housing

16-Feb-2011

Robert Hill, Department of Economics, University of Graz, Austria

Statistics Working Paper N. 36- 2011/1 - 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 ...

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