Economic Outlook Database Inventory

20-Dec-2011

This document describes in detail the OECD Economic Outlook database. It provides the codes and descriptions of all variables, the country codes used, and the definitions of and relations between the variables. It is supplementary to the Sources and Methods of the Economic Outlook.

EO Sources - Notes to statistical annex tables 1-10: Demand and Output

12-Dec-2011

Notes to statistical annex tables 1-10, Sources and Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook.

Sources & Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook

20-Jul-2010

Description of economic and statistical concepts, data sources and various techniques curently used by the Department in undertaking its assessment of global economics.

Economic policies and other assumptions

06-Jan-2009

The OECD projections are conditional on a set of technical assumptions, which comprises: unchanged exchange rates, as of a given date; unchanged fiscal and monetary policies; and a projected path of oil ...

Forecasting methods and analytical tools

27-Aug-2008

The use of econometric models in OECD's forecasting process, Sources and Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook.

Interest rate assumptions underpinning the OECD's projections

06-Mar-2007

This note provides detail on the derivation of the short- and long-term interest rates embodied in the Secretariat’s short-term projections and medium-term baseline.

EO Sources - Statistical annex tables - Corrigenda

04-Sep-2006

Corrigenda to statistical annex tables, Sources and Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook.

EO Sources - Cyclically-adjusted budget balances: a methodological note

20-Feb-2006

The cyclically adjusted budget balance is drived by (re-)calculating the items on the government appropriation account which would be obtained if output (GDP) were at its potential level. Sources & ...

EO Sources - Weighting scheme for aggregate measures

26-Nov-2003

Sources and Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook.