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Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: February 2010

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08-Feb-2010

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.8% in December 2009, unchanged from the previous month but up by 1.8 percentage points from a year earlier.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates and Levels

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08-Feb-2010

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...

Investment Data and Shares of ICT Investment in Total Non-residential GFCF

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08-Feb-2010

Estimates of investment levels and shares of ICT investment in total non residential Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) permit the comparison of ICT investment across countries. The OECD estimates are ...

Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs), OECD, February 2010

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05-Feb-2010

OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for December 2009 provide stronger signals of an expansionary economic outlook than last month.

Latest Key Short-Term Indicators for OECD Countries

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05-Feb-2010

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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05-Feb-2010

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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05-Feb-2010

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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05-Feb-2010

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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05-Feb-2010

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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05-Feb-2010

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

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40 tables and 31 graphs showing "at a glance" the key messages conveyed by the OECD national accounts data.

National Accounts at a Glance 2009

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