Working Party on National Accounts, 14-16 October 2008

Held at La Défense --Tour Europe on 14-16 October 2008 beginning at 9:00 a.m. on the first day

Statistics Brief No. 13 - The Revision of the 1993 System of National Accounts - What does it change?

This Statistics Brief highlights some of the main changes to the 1993 SNA and provides, where possible, a preliminary evaluation of the possible impact on these key variables.

OECD Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) - Main Economic Indicators (MEI) Revisions Database, August 2007

The OECD QNA - MEI Revisions Database allows users of quarterly national accounts to assess the reliability of the first estimates of quarterly volume, seasonally adjusted, GDP of OECD countries. It covers 18 countries.

OECD Annual Statistics on Households’ Assets

Purposes of the dataset:The elaboration of a more precise nomenclature of households' financial assets and the collection of more detailed information constitute an attempt to better identify and analyze households' wealth in OECD countries. The objective of the sub-classification of assets AF.52, AF611 and AF612 is to identify the relative importance of the various types of assets, classified according to the increasing risk. The

Statistical news releases published after the above issue have been archived

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The OECD Statistics Brief No.11 May 2006 - Alternative Measures of Well-being

The OECD, in common with many other organisations, has normally measured material living standards in member countries in terms of the level and growth of gross domestic product (GDP). But clearly, policy makers do not focus single-mindedly on GDP. They rather seek to enhance the overall well-being of citizens, today and in the future, taking into account other factors such as distributional concerns and environmental quality.

Estimates of the unrecorded economy and national accounts - Declaration of the Inter-secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA), January 2006

Following the publication of several studies on estimates of the underground economy, the international organisations that co-signed the well known "SNA 93" drafted this official declaration.

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The OECD Statistics Brief N. 8, June 2004 - Comparison of Household Saving Ratios: Euro area/United States/Japan

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