Manuals, Sources and Methods

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

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06-Nov-2009

Inventory of series available in Main Economic Indicator electronic data products.

What are Equivalence Scales?

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17-Sep-2009

The needs of a household grow with each additional member but – due to economies of scale in consumption– not in a proportional way. With the help of equivalence scales each household type in the population is assigned a value in proportion to its needs.

OECD Main Economic Indicators - Online Sources and Definitions

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11-Sep-2009

Main Economic Indicators: Electronically available national practices for individual OECD member countries - Updated in real time.

OECD Statistical Programme of Work 2009

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06-Jul-2009

This new edition of the OECD Statistical Programme of Work gives an overview of all main statistical activities planned for 2009 by the Statistics Directorate and all other Directorates active in the field ...

OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) - Methodology for compiling area totals in the MEI

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01-Jul-2009

This note describes the current methodology used for compiling OECD 'main country groupings' (zones) for the Main Economic Indicators (MEI) publication and datasets. The MEI publishes zones for the following ...

OECD Main Economic Indicators(MEI): Sources, Definitions and Methodological Practices

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26-Mar-2009

MEI: Sources and Definitions provides a brief summary outline of current national practices for each country for which data are published in MEI. Information is published under four broad headings: definition, coverage, collection and calculation.

OECD Statistical Information System (SIS)

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21-Aug-2008

This page gathers available overview information on the progress of OECD's new Statistical Information System (SIS).

OECD Statistical Programme of Work 2008

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09-Jun-2008

This new edition of the OECD Statistical Programme of Work gives an overview of all main statistical activities planned for 2008 by the Statistics Directorate and all other Directorates active in the field ...

National Accounts Meetings - Archive of Papers

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09-Jan-2008

Discussions papers and proceeding of meetings organised by OECD National Accounts Division

Management of Statistical Metadata at the OECD

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27-Oct-2007

This document outlines basic metadata principles and management principles relating to statistical metadata management in the OECD. The document also contains a set of common metadata items providing a ...

The aim of this book is to help the reader to better understand how to use economic statistics in general and OECD statistics in particular.

Understanding Economic Statistics: an OECD perspective

presents important statistical issues to the international community of statisticians, economists, policy makers and researchers.

The Statistics Brief