Manuals, Sources and Methods

Teachers and the Curriculum

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15-Nov-2002

This manual provides data collection instructions on annual instruction time, teachers' statutory salary and incentive system, teachers' working conditions and pre-service training requirements.

PISA 2000 Technical Report

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15-Nov-2002

The PISA Technical Report describes methodologies, along with other features that have enabled the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to provide high quality data to support policy formation and review.

UOE Data Collection - 2002 Data Collection on Education Systems: Definitions, Explanations and Instructions

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15-Nov-2002

The objective of the UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection on education statistics is to provide internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems, specifically on the articipation and completion ...

CLassifying Educational Programmes

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15-Nov-2002

Education systems vary widely between countries, so how can we compare them? The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is an instrument designed to transform data collected under different ...

Quarterly National Accounts in Asia: Sources and Methods - Workshop on Quarterly National Accounts, October 2001, Bangkok, Thailand

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04-Oct-2002

In October 2001 a Workshop on Quarterly National Accounts was held in Bangkok, Thailand. It was organised jointly by the OECD, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Asian Development Bank.

Methodology for the measurement of support and use in policy evaluation

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28-Jun-2002

This document explains the coverage, definitions, criteria of classification and methods of calculating the OECD indicators of support associated with agricultural policies.

Structural Statistics for Industry and Services (SSIS) - Presentation of national data in Euros

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23-Apr-2002

Presentation of national data in Euros used in the publication: "Structural Statistics for Industry and Services".

OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) - Methodology: Industry, Construction and Retail

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12-Mar-2002

This publication provides comparisons of methodologies used to compile some of the short-term economic indicators published by the OECD for its Member countries. It is the first in a series of such publications. ...

National Accounts for Non-Member Countries

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15-Feb-2002

Sources and methods

Purchasing Power Parities

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14-Feb-2002

The Statistics Directorate of the OECD is working with a number of non-member countries to calculate purchasing power parities that can be used as currency converters to enable inter-country comparisons ...

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