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Employment situation, OECD, fourth quarter 2020

OECD area employment rate rose by 1.0 percentage point in the fourth quarter of 2020, but remains below pre-pandemic level

Composite Leading Indicators (CLI), OECD, April 2021

Composite leading indicators (CLIs) are designed to anticipate turning points in economic activity relative to trend six to nine months ahead. However, in the current circumstances, the CLIs should continue to be interpreted with care as fluctuations in the underlying components are likely influenced by the evolving measures to contain Covid-19 and the progress of vaccination campaigns.

Unemployment Rates, OECD - Updated: April 2021

Marginal fall in OECD unemployment rate in February 2021, to 6.7%, 1.4 percentage points above its pre-pandemic level

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 6 April 2021

OECD annual inflation picks up to 1.7% in February 2021

Statistical Insights

The Statistical Insights is a series of articles, launched in 2016, that highlights indicators that tend to be less visible than standard headline indicators, but that provide interesting evidence for analysis ‌and policy making in some areas.

Statistical Insights: The OECD Consumer Barometer

What consumer sentiment choices say in times of crisis - Since March 2020, the devastating effects of COVID-19 have undeniably marked consumers’ behaviour and significantly affecting their professional and social lives. The OECD has developed a new tool, the OECD Consumer Barometer that exploits and visualises consumer confidence data.

The OECD Consumer Barometer

The OECD has developed a new tool, the OECD Consumer Barometer that further exploits and visualises consumer confidence data. The indicator, expressed as the monthly growth rate of the normalised consumer confidence indicator (CCI), has been designed with a view to clarity and reactivity in our presentation of measures of consumer sentiment.

Glossary for OECD Composite Leading Indicators and Business & Consumer Tendency Surveys

Glossary of terms for OECD Composite Leading Indicators and Business & Consumer Tendency Surveys

Improving Productivity Measurement Practices

The first report of the APO and OECD explores current practices and challenges in productivity measurement and provides recommendations to National Productivity Organisations (NPOs), National Statistics Offices (NSOs) and other agencies involved in the compilation and analysis of productivity statistics in APO member economies to improve measurement and cross-country comparability.

Towards Improved and Comparable Productivity Statistics - A Set of Recommendations for Statistical Policy