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Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs), OECD, November 2009

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06-Nov-2009

OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for September 2009 point strongly to growth in Italy, France, United Kingdom and China, while tentative signals of expansion have emerged in Canada and German ...

Latest Key Short-Term Indicators for OECD Countries

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)  . Updated monthly according to the MEI publication timetable. Includes the latest data on Gross domestic product, Leading indicators, Consumer price indices, Current balance, Unemployment rates and Interest rate

OECD Key Economic Indicators (KEI) Database

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06-Nov-2009

Provides access to long time series of growth rates for a number of Key Economic Indicators (GDP, production, cyclical indicators, standardised unemployment rates, prices, financial indicators, trade...) collected within the Main Economic Indicators database.

Standardised Confidence Indicators for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated monthly according to MEI timetable ). The OECD Standardised Confidence Indicators (for manufacturing industry and consumers) are confidence indicators...

Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Composite leading indicators (CLIs) are presented in two different forms. They are the trend restored CLIs and the annualised 6-month rate of changes of CLIs.

Registered unemployment rates and levels for OECD countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (Updated continuously) - Unemployment statistics derived from administrative registers.

Survey based unemployment rates and levels for OECD countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) -  Unemployment rates and levels derived from labour force surveys.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates and Levels

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - The OECD harmonised unemployment rates (seasonally adjusted) give the numbers of unemployed persons as a percentage of the civilian labour force...

Job Vacancies for OECD countries

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Data generally relate to the stock of unfilled job vacancies.

Hourly Earnings for OECD countries

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Hourly earnings correspond to seasonally adjusted average total earnings in manufacturing and private sector paid per employed person per hour, including overtime pay and regularly recurring

Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies

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Measuring the Progress of Societies

How does the well-being of societies evolve? Sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators are needed to provide a comprehensive picture. Visit the website to find out more about this project.


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