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...

Business and Consumer 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 ). Access the full database of consumer opinion and business tendency indicators for all sectors of the economy covering OECD countries, China,

Consumer confidence remains low but signs of improvement appear

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23-Jul-2009

Consumer confidence indicators in recent months have pointed to a marked improvement in sentiment since the historic lows recorded towards the beginning of 2009. Whilst encouraging, some caution is needed ...

The OECD business cycle clock

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31-Mar-2009

The OECD Business Cycle Clock has been designed to better visualize business cycles - fluctuations of economic activity around their long term potential level - and how some key economic indicators interact ...

Financial crisis sees collapse in OECD consumer confidence

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06-Feb-2009

Recent data on consumer confidence suggests that households are quite pessimistic on the severity of the current financial crisis, and its impact on the economy at large. Confidence indicators for OECD ...

OECD Business Cycle Analysis Database

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10-Aug-2007

This database provides access to time series data for OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLI), standardised consumer and business confidence indicators, business tendency survey indicators by sector and ...

OECD Business and Consumer Confidence Indicators

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04-Aug-2006

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated monthly). This file includes business confidence indicators for manufacturing and consumer confidence indicators. Data are provided for major seven OECD countries...

OECD MEI Original Release Data and Revisions Database

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07-Jul-2006

Access time series data for 21 key economic variables as originally published in each monthly edition of the MEI from February 1999 onwards. Accessing this source of originally published data will enable ...

Visualize business cycles

with the OECD business cycle clock

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This is a practical manual on the design and implementation of business tendency surveys, on the interpretation of the results from such surveys and on their use for economic analysis and forecasting.

Business Tendency Surveys: A Handbook

The aim of this Journal is the exchange of knowledge and information on the theory and operation of business and economic cycle research.

OECD - CIRET Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis (JBCMA)