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Measuring entrepreneurship: a digest of indicators, 2009 edition

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16-Nov-2009

This report presents the results of the second round of empirical data collected under the  Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP).

Business demography statistics

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16-Nov-2009

The OECD's Business Demography database contains information on variables such as birth rates (business entries), death rates (business exits) survival rates, or High-Growth enterprises rate for most OECD ...

OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: November 2009

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13-Nov-2009

Unit Labour Costs (ULC) for the total economy grew 0.8% in OECD countries in the second quarter of 2009 and rose 3.6% year-on-year.

Quarterly Unit Labour Cost indexes for OECD countries

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13-Nov-2009

Source: OECD System of Unit Labour Cost Indicators (updated quarterly at end Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec) - Unit labour costs measure the average cost of labour per unit of output. Quarterly data are presented ...

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: November 2009

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09-Nov-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.6% in September 2009, the same as the previous month and 2.3 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates and Levels

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09-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...

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...

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. More about the Global Project


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