Business Tendency and Consumer Opinion Surveys
Purpose
• To collect and disseminate business tendency and consumer opinion survey data for OECD member countries and selected non-member economies. To promote wider use of business tendency and consumer opinion surveys in OECD member countries and selected non-member economies.
• To develop international statistical standards and to encourage scientific research in this field of statistics.
Objectives and outputs
• This activity involves the ongoing collection and publication of an extensive range of business tendency and consumer opinion survey data and related metadata from OECD member countries and the BRIICS.
• The survey data are updated and published monthly. Data collection is co-ordinated with the European Commission, with the OECD taking primary responsibility for data collection from national sources only for non-EU OECD member countries and the BRIICS.
• During the year 2010 the OECD evaluated the possibility to renew its existing international guidelines and recommendations. In co-operation with UNSD, the European Commission and CIRET it surveyed current availability of tendency surveys internationally and the level of harmonization and adherence to existing guidelines. In 2013 the OECD will participate in an international review aiming at producing a handbook on Business Tendency and Consumer Confidence Surveys building in large part on existing OECD and EC handbooks.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
MEI_BTS_COS
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• The review of the code re-structuring continues (started in 2012), aiming at a more streamlined production database.
• OECD will provide the chapter on questionnaire design for the new/revised BTS and CS handbook, and act as a reviewer for other chapters.
Main economic indicators
Purpose
• The OECD's Main Economic Indicator (MEI) database provides a wide range of short-term economic indicators (and associated methodological information) for OECD member and non-countries to meet the on-going requirements of a number of internal OECD users.
Objectives and outputs
• Maintaining the Main Economic Indicators (MEI) database, which contains monthly and quarterly statistics (and associated statistical methodological information) for all OECD member and Key Partner on a wide variety of economic indicators for use by economic analysts, policy makers and business.
• Indicators in the MEI database include: quarterly national accounts, industrial production, composite leading indicators, business tendency and consumer opinion surveys, retail trade, consumer and producer prices, hourly earnings, employment/unemployment, interest rates, monetary aggregates, exchange rates, international trade and balance of payments.
• There is an on-going process of review to revise the contents of the database in order to maximise the relevance of the database for short-term economic analysis, for example, through the inclusion of new indicators reflecting new areas of analysis and policy making. Enlarging coverage also entails working with other international organisations such as IMF, ILO, ECB and Eurostat in the development of effective international standards for the presentation of statistical methodological information (metadata), and increasing the coverage and quality of statistical metadata, whilst at the same time minimising the reporting burden of member countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Slovenia Former, South Africa
Databases
Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Subject areas are now responsible individually.
Data collection
• On-going processes to improve the efficiency and timeliness of data capture processes.
• There will also be expanded use of data from Eurostat's NewCronos database and the IMF's IFS. Greater efforts will also be made to implement data and metadata exchange standards developed under the SDMX initiative.
Real-time and Revisions Database
Purpose
• To make freely available on the OECD website a "real-time" database with associated revisions analysis of key short-term economic statistics derived from historically published monthly snapshots of the OECD Main Economic Indicators database.
Objectives and outputs
• The concept of a real time database is to provide an information set of short-term economic statistics that would have been available to analysts at a specific point in time for the purpose of testing the likely effectiveness of econometric models in real-time. It also provides the opportunity to perform revisions analysis - i.e. to study the magnitude and direction of subsequent revisions to published statistics. A database containing MEI vintage from 1999 was developed and published on the OECD website in 2006.
• The portal also provides a broader context on the issue of revisions. This primarily take the form of the revisions framework (outlining the reasons for data revision) formulated by the IMF and of the recommendations published in the OECD "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook".
• Updated revisions analysis of GDP and a comparison of revisions between seasonally adjusted and raw series were performed in 2007 and presented at the STESWP and National Accounts working parties, and also at a number of international conferences where the database was also promoted.
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
No major changes.
2.2 Economic accounts (OECD)
Annual National Accounts
Purpose
• To provide, on an internationally comparable basis, a timely update of annual national accounts data to internal and external users for analytical purposes.
• To provide a forum of international exchange on national accounts standards, in order to improve the relevance of SNA 93 and enhance international comparability.
Objectives and outputs
• The annual national accounts database (SNA) presents a consistent set of data mainly compiled on the basis of the 1993 System of National Accounts. It contains data from 1970 whenever possible for OECD member countries.
• Main series of the SNA database are presented using an "indicator" approach in the publication National accounts at a Glance, focusing on cross-country comparisons. In this publication each indicator is associated to a text which explains in general terms of what is measured and why.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil
Databases
• Annual National Accounts (ANA)
Economics Department Analytical Data Base (ADB)
Purpose
• Management, co-ordination and provision of statistical data sets in support of Economics Department work described under Theme 1 (Economic Growth, Stability and Structural Adjustment). Primarily as input to the Economic Outlook assessment process, ensure timely and consistent updating of the body of largely macroeconomic statistics and calculation of subsidiary concepts necessary for corresponding analytical activities. Checking methodological soundness and consistency of data definitions against the analytical needs of the Department and in particular Country Desks. Development and maintenance of related programmes, definitions and procedures and associated metadata systems in support of analytical users.
Objectives and outputs
• Maintains relevant Analytical Data Bank in support of relevant needs of ECO's macro analytical work, notably with respect to the data needs of the OECD Economic Outlook. In conjunction with STD and other statistical groups, co-ordinates, manages and extracts the relevant annual and quarterly data sets from available sources within the OECD (mostly STD), National Administrations and related publications. The primary database covers a range of statistical concepts relevant, in particular, to the assessment of the world's economic situation and developments in member country economies. These include a wide range of national accounts, wage, price and labour force, fiscal and financial accounts, exchange rates, international trade and balance of payments concepts reported on a variety of frequencies. Basic definitions and requirements are those of the economists in the Policy and Country Studies branches. The relevant statistics are used routinely in the analysis incorporated in documents for the Economic Policy and Economic Development Review Committees and are reported as supporting material in the corresponding OECD publications - the twice yearly OECD Economic Outlook and the OECD Country Survey series. The Economic Outlook data set is also disseminated as an OECD data product.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
Databases
• Economics Department Analytical Database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• New indicators to help monitoring analysis will be introduced. Main technical changes in the past and coming year relate to the continuing migration to the ADB to ECO's time series data management system, incorporating direct links to in-house source data bases and the MetaStore system, the integration of Economic Outlook publications data base within the OECD.Stat system and the incorporation of relevant production metadata within MetaStore for internal and external use. Migration to a new support (PROGNOZ).
Data management
• Development of metadata link based HELP system within data management system, revisions to control and access rights for users outside of ECO.
General Government National Accounts
Purpose
• To provide, on an internationally comparable basis, a timely update of annual national accounts data for the sector of general government and sub-sectors to internal and external users. This covers detailed revenues and detailed expenditures by function of general government and subsectors.
Objectives and outputs
• The project on general government national accounts began in September 2003. There are three objectives of the project: (1) improve the transmission to and dissemination by the OECD of timely and detailed data on general government; (2) enhance the comparability of the major aggregate results for general government such as general government deficit/surplus and/or general government debt.
• Data are made available to member country government agencies on OLISnet thanks to OECD.Stat and to the public through dissemination in OECD.Stat and tables freely available on Internet.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Russian Federation, Slovenia Former
Databases
• ANA - SNA
• Annual National Accounts (ANA)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Extension the collection of data for EE countries, in particular for Brazil, India
Household Assets and Liabilities (annual and quarterly)
Purpose
• This data collection aims at better knowing the households’ behavior vis-à-vis risks and enables studies on the distribution of households' wealth. It refers to the SNA sector S14 – Households.
• An additional questionnaire is sent yearly to OECD countries in parallel with the OECD/Eurostat joint questionnaire on Financial Accounts.
Objectives and outputs
• The database has been updated up to 2011 for all OECD countries.
• A better coverage of financial and non-financial assets and on detailed liabilities currently transmitted by OECD countries has been achieved.
• Quarterly data received from most OECD countries have been added to the database and stored in the QASA browser for the first time in 2012.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
• Household Assets and Liabilities
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• It is expected to continue to improve the level of details (assets and liabilities) of the database and to extend the geographical coverage to non-member countries (Russia, Key Partner countries).
• If resources permit, quarterly data will continue to be processed and, if so, they will be used to calculate financial indicators.
Data collection
• Improvement in the level of details
OECD Financial Dashboard
Purpose
• The recent financial and economic crises have underlined the importance of monitoring financial activity and position of the various institutional sectors of national economies.
• The OECD Financial Dashboard has been created to respond to users' questions and needs for relevant indicators based on timely, frequent and comparable financial statistics.
Objectives and outputs
• The financial indicators are constructed from financial accounts and from financial balance sheets to analyse the behaviour and performance of the various institutional sectors and to carry out cross-country comparisons.
• Eleven financial indicators derived from financial balance sheets, national accounts and the institutional investors' assets datasets have been added to the Dashboard in 2012.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa
Databases
• OECD Financial Dashboard
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• New financial indicators for the Households' sector will be added to the Financial Dashboard in 2013.
Data collection
• Collection of 2012 financial accounts and financial balance sheets data which enable the calculation of financial indicators for the year 2012.
Quarterly National Accounts
Purpose
• To provide a real time update of member and non-member countries' sets of quarterly national accounts to internal users, mainly the OECD Economics Department. Quarterly national accounts constitute a significant input into the OECD's macro-economic modelling and forecasting work.
• To provide external users a selection of key long time series from countries' quarterly national accounts, some area totals and a consistent and internationally comparable set of data for analytical purposes.
Objectives and outputs
• The OECD Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) database presents data collected from countries on the basis of a standardised OECD/Eurostat questionnaire based on the international system of national accounts (SNA 1993, SNA 2008). It contains, as from 1960 whenever possible (and even before for a few countries), a wide selection of the accounts produced by the 34 member countries and Key Partners.
• Work is concentrated on producing relevant, reliable, consistent, comparable and timely quarterly national accounts data.
• The QNA publications contain a selection of the accounts most widely used for economic analysis: GDP - expenditure and output approaches (current prices and volume estimates), GDP income approach (current prices), Saving and net lending (current prices), Gross fixed capital formation (current prices and volume estimates) broken down separately by type of asset and by institutional sector, Disposable income and Real disposable income components, Population and Employment, Compensation of employees by industry, Employment by industry, Household final consumption expenditure (current prices and volume estimates) by durability and by purpose.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
• Quarterly National Accounts (QNA)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Continue to extend the coverage of the database by the inclusion of new accounts/series provided by countries.
• Expand the geographical coverage of the QNA database by including more updated data from Key Partner countries and remaining G20 countries (Argentina and Saudi Arabia).
Quarterly Public Sector Debt
Purpose
• The Public Sector Debt Statistics Database was launched in December 2010 and was initially focused on developing and emerging economies, and is now being expanded to the advanced economies. The launch of the database is one of the recommendations in the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative (Recommendation 18). This Initiative has been endorsed by G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and also by the IMF’s International Monetary and Financial Committee.
• The request covers total general government and public sector debt, broken down by details on instruments, maturity, the residence of creditor, and currency. While data are generally recorded at nominal value, there is a supplementary item for data on debt securities to be shown at market value. Data are to be provided for the various institutional levels, specifically central government, general government, and, if possible, the public sector, where available.
Objectives and outputs
• Collect detailed and comparable quarterly data on the General Government Debt, the Central Government Debt and more broadly the Public Sector Debt for all OECD countries.
• Since January 2013, 33 OECD countries have provided detailed data on General and Central government debt. Russia participates in this initiative as well.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa.
Databases
• Quarterly Public Sector Debt (7PSD)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• All OECD countries except Chile provide the OECD/WB/IMF with quarterly data on Public Sector Debt.
• Eurostat participates in this initiative for some EU countries by prefilling the PSD questionnaire with Maastricht debt data.
Quarterly Sector Accounts (Financial part)
Purpose
• To provide financial quarterly sector accounts data of member and non-member G20 countries for internal and external users.
• The G20 Recommendation 15 has identified Sector accounts (annual and quarterly) as essential statistics to monitor economies.
• The OECD is responsible for collecting and disseminating detailed quarterly sectoral accounts for OECD member countries and other non-member G20 countries.
Objectives and outputs
• The collection of data relating to Quarterly financial accounts and quarterly financial balance sheets, launched in 2011, and stored in the new QASA browser, will continue in cooperation with ECB (for EU countries).
• The aim is to better cover all OECD countries, including EU countries, and, when data are available, also key partner countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
Quarterly Financial Accounts and Financial Balance Sheets
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Some improvement are expected regarding non-EU countries. For EU countries data, which are transmitted by the ECB once validated, it is hoped that pending problems will be rapidly solved.
Data collection
• It is expected to improve the coverage of this database (countries, sectors and instruments) and to solve issues relating to the ECB cooperation.
Quarterly Sector Accounts (Non-Financial part)
Purpose
• To provide non-financial quarterly sector accounts data of member and non-member G20 countries for internal and external users.
• The G20 Recommendation 15 identified Sector accounts as essential statistics to monitor economies.
• The OECD is responsible for collecting and disseminating detailed quarterly sectoral accounts for OECD member countries and other non-member G20 countries.
Objectives and outputs
• Continue to collect non-financial Quarterly Sector Accounts (QSA) data for EU countries in close collaboration with Eurostat; Collect non-EU QSA data through standard questionnaires.
• Release publishable QSA data in OECD.stat and feed the IMF PGI- website with the G20 QSA data.
• Non-member countries involved in the activity:
• Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
Databases
• Non-financial Quarterly Sector Accounts
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Continue collecting data from non-EU countries which have not yet transmitted data to the OECD through the standard questionnaire.
• Extend the release of QSA data on OECD.Stat with new publishable data.
• Continue to feed the IMF PGI-website with G20 QSA data.
STAN Input-Output database
Purpose
• To provide a comprehensive database for cross country analyses of industrial structures, the interrelationships between consumers and producers, and the interactions between countries (e.g. as regards outsourcing and trade flows).
• The current OECD input-output database is based on detailed national accounts estimates of economic activity and interrelationships within economies. The database is based on an ISIC Rev.3 and is consistent with the latest system of national accounts (SNA93). Data for 33 OECD countries and 11 non-member countries are currently available, with latest data for many countries referring to 2005 with tables also available for most countries for 2000 or nearest year and for the mid-1990s.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chinese Taipei, Cyprus, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Other, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia Former, South Africa, Thailand
Databases
• STAN Input-Output database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Expand the country coverage (e.g. non-OECD EU countries).
• Use latest Supply-Use tables (SUTs) to produce harmonised I-O tables for 2008-09. especially for EU countries.
• Continue to develop and improve the Inter-Country I-O (ICIO) model which combines the I-O tables, Supply-Use tables and bilateral trade by industry data to produce the key underlying source for production of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators.
2.3 Business statistics (OECD)
Business Statistics and Entrepreneurship
Purpose
• To provide official annual data for detailed industrial and service sectors (at the 4 digit ISIC level), consistent and relevant for international comparison in order to meet policy makers' and analysts' needs for structural business statistics for detailed economic sectors. Three databases are currently maintained.
• To develop a program of internationally-comparable indicators of entrepreneurship, its determinants and its impacts, to inform policy-analysis and policy-making. This activity is called Entrepreneurship Indicators Program (EIP).
Objectives and outputs
• The databases on structural business statistics (SSIS) and (BSC), updated through a joint questionnaire with UNIDO, contain annual data on core economic variables, relating to both industry and services, at a very detailed level of ISIC revision 3 (up to the 4th digit level). They cover such variables as production, value added, investment, number of enterprises, employment, wages and salaries, and hours worked. Statistics are derived mainly from structural business surveys, censuses and administrative sources.
• The BSC database contains this information broken down by enterprise size class.
• Business Demography statistics include indicators of birth, death and survival rates and high growth firms - all based on the Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics published in 2007.
• The publication Entrepreneurship at a Glance, published annually, presents the original collection of business demography indicators and structural statistics on businesses by size class.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia Former
Databases
• SDBS - Business Demography Indicators
• SDBS – Structural Business Statistics
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Expected improvements to SDBS statistics in 2013 include:
- the extension of the country coverage in the collection of comparable business demography statistics;
- the publication of the third issue of Entrepreneurship at a Glance in June 2013.
Data collection
• Extension of the country coverage in the collection of entrepreneurship statistics is expected. It is also expected that other entrepreneurship indicators will be identified and added.
2.4 Sectoral statistics (OECD)
2.1 Macroeconomic statistics (OECD)
Business Tendency and Consumer Opinion Surveys
Purpose
• To collect and disseminate business tendency and consumer opinion survey data for OECD member countries and selected non-member economies. To promote wider use of business tendency and consumer opinion surveys in OECD member countries and selected non-member economies.
• To develop international statistical standards and to encourage scientific research in this field of statistics.
Objectives and outputs
• This activity involves the ongoing collection and publication of an extensive range of business tendency and consumer opinion survey data and related metadata from OECD member countries and the BRIICS.
• The survey data are updated and published monthly. Data collection is co-ordinated with the European Commission, with the OECD taking primary responsibility for data collection from national sources only for non-EU OECD member countries and the BRIICS.
• During the year 2010 the OECD evaluated the possibility to renew its existing international guidelines and recommendations. In co-operation with UNSD, the European Commission and CIRET it surveyed current availability of tendency surveys internationally and the level of harmonization and adherence to existing guidelines. In 2013 the OECD will participate in an international review aiming at producing a handbook on Business Tendency and Consumer Confidence Surveys building in large part on existing OECD and EC handbooks.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
MEI_BTS_COS
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• The review of the code re-structuring continues (started in 2012), aiming at a more streamlined production database.
• OECD will provide the chapter on questionnaire design for the new/revised BTS and CS handbook, and act as a reviewer for other chapters.
Main economic indicators
Purpose
• The OECD's Main Economic Indicator (MEI) database provides a wide range of short-term economic indicators (and associated methodological information) for OECD member and non-countries to meet the on-going requirements of a number of internal OECD users.
Objectives and outputs
• Maintaining the Main Economic Indicators (MEI) database, which contains monthly and quarterly statistics (and associated statistical methodological information) for all OECD member and Key Partner on a wide variety of economic indicators for use by economic analysts, policy makers and business.
• Indicators in the MEI database include: quarterly national accounts, industrial production, composite leading indicators, business tendency and consumer opinion surveys, retail trade, consumer and producer prices, hourly earnings, employment/unemployment, interest rates, monetary aggregates, exchange rates, international trade and balance of payments.
• There is an on-going process of review to revise the contents of the database in order to maximise the relevance of the database for short-term economic analysis, for example, through the inclusion of new indicators reflecting new areas of analysis and policy making. Enlarging coverage also entails working with other international organisations such as IMF, ILO, ECB and Eurostat in the development of effective international standards for the presentation of statistical methodological information (metadata), and increasing the coverage and quality of statistical metadata, whilst at the same time minimising the reporting burden of member countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Slovenia Former, South Africa
Databases
Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Subject areas are now responsible individually.
Data collection
• On-going processes to improve the efficiency and timeliness of data capture processes.
• There will also be expanded use of data from Eurostat's NewCronos database and the IMF's IFS. Greater efforts will also be made to implement data and metadata exchange standards developed under the SDMX initiative.
Real-time and Revisions Database
Purpose
• To make freely available on the OECD website a "real-time" database with associated revisions analysis of key short-term economic statistics derived from historically published monthly snapshots of the OECD Main Economic Indicators database.
Objectives and outputs
• The concept of a real time database is to provide an information set of short-term economic statistics that would have been available to analysts at a specific point in time for the purpose of testing the likely effectiveness of econometric models in real-time. It also provides the opportunity to perform revisions analysis - i.e. to study the magnitude and direction of subsequent revisions to published statistics. A database containing MEI vintage from 1999 was developed and published on the OECD website in 2006.
• The portal also provides a broader context on the issue of revisions. This primarily take the form of the revisions framework (outlining the reasons for data revision) formulated by the IMF and of the recommendations published in the OECD "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook".
• Updated revisions analysis of GDP and a comparison of revisions between seasonally adjusted and raw series were performed in 2007 and presented at the STESWP and National Accounts working parties, and also at a number of international conferences where the database was also promoted.
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
No major changes.2.2 Economic accounts (OECD)
Annual National Accounts
Purpose
• To provide, on an internationally comparable basis, a timely update of annual national accounts data to internal and external users for analytical purposes.
• To provide a forum of international exchange on national accounts standards, in order to improve the relevance of SNA 93 and enhance international comparability.
Objectives and outputs
• The annual national accounts database (SNA) presents a consistent set of data mainly compiled on the basis of the 1993 System of National Accounts. It contains data from 1970 whenever possible for OECD member countries.
• Main series of the SNA database are presented using an "indicator" approach in the publication National accounts at a Glance, focusing on cross-country comparisons. In this publication each indicator is associated to a text which explains in general terms of what is measured and why.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil
Databases
• Annual National Accounts (ANA)
Economics Department Analytical Data Base (ADB)
Purpose
• Management, co-ordination and provision of statistical data sets in support of Economics Department work described under Theme 1 (Economic Growth, Stability and Structural Adjustment). Primarily as input to the Economic Outlook assessment process, ensure timely and consistent updating of the body of largely macroeconomic statistics and calculation of subsidiary concepts necessary for corresponding analytical activities. Checking methodological soundness and consistency of data definitions against the analytical needs of the Department and in particular Country Desks. Development and maintenance of related programmes, definitions and procedures and associated metadata systems in support of analytical users.
Objectives and outputs
• Maintains relevant Analytical Data Bank in support of relevant needs of ECO's macro analytical work, notably with respect to the data needs of the OECD Economic Outlook. In conjunction with STD and other statistical groups, co-ordinates, manages and extracts the relevant annual and quarterly data sets from available sources within the OECD (mostly STD), National Administrations and related publications. The primary database covers a range of statistical concepts relevant, in particular, to the assessment of the world's economic situation and developments in member country economies. These include a wide range of national accounts, wage, price and labour force, fiscal and financial accounts, exchange rates, international trade and balance of payments concepts reported on a variety of frequencies. Basic definitions and requirements are those of the economists in the Policy and Country Studies branches. The relevant statistics are used routinely in the analysis incorporated in documents for the Economic Policy and Economic Development Review Committees and are reported as supporting material in the corresponding OECD publications - the twice yearly OECD Economic Outlook and the OECD Country Survey series. The Economic Outlook data set is also disseminated as an OECD data product.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
Databases
• Economics Department Analytical Database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• New indicators to help monitoring analysis will be introduced. Main technical changes in the past and coming year relate to the continuing migration to the ADB to ECO's time series data management system, incorporating direct links to in-house source data bases and the MetaStore system, the integration of Economic Outlook publications data base within the OECD.Stat system and the incorporation of relevant production metadata within MetaStore for internal and external use. Migration to a new support (PROGNOZ).
Data management
• Development of metadata link based HELP system within data management system, revisions to control and access rights for users outside of ECO.
General Government National Accounts
Purpose
• To provide, on an internationally comparable basis, a timely update of annual national accounts data for the sector of general government and sub-sectors to internal and external users. This covers detailed revenues and detailed expenditures by function of general government and subsectors.
Objectives and outputs
• The project on general government national accounts began in September 2003. There are three objectives of the project: (1) improve the transmission to and dissemination by the OECD of timely and detailed data on general government; (2) enhance the comparability of the major aggregate results for general government such as general government deficit/surplus and/or general government debt.
• Data are made available to member country government agencies on OLISnet thanks to OECD.Stat and to the public through dissemination in OECD.Stat and tables freely available on Internet.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Russian Federation, Slovenia Former
Databases
• ANA - SNA
• Annual National Accounts (ANA)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Extension the collection of data for EE countries, in particular for Brazil, India
Household Assets and Liabilities (annual and quarterly)
Purpose
• This data collection aims at better knowing the households’ behavior vis-à-vis risks and enables studies on the distribution of households' wealth. It refers to the SNA sector S14 – Households.
• An additional questionnaire is sent yearly to OECD countries in parallel with the OECD/Eurostat joint questionnaire on Financial Accounts.
Objectives and outputs
• The database has been updated up to 2011 for all OECD countries.
• A better coverage of financial and non-financial assets and on detailed liabilities currently transmitted by OECD countries has been achieved.
• Quarterly data received from most OECD countries have been added to the database and stored in the QASA browser for the first time in 2012.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
• Household Assets and Liabilities
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• It is expected to continue to improve the level of details (assets and liabilities) of the database and to extend the geographical coverage to non-member countries (Russia, Key Partner countries).
• If resources permit, quarterly data will continue to be processed and, if so, they will be used to calculate financial indicators.
Data collection
• Improvement in the level of details
OECD Financial Dashboard
Purpose
• The recent financial and economic crises have underlined the importance of monitoring financial activity and position of the various institutional sectors of national economies.
• The OECD Financial Dashboard has been created to respond to users' questions and needs for relevant indicators based on timely, frequent and comparable financial statistics.
Objectives and outputs
• The financial indicators are constructed from financial accounts and from financial balance sheets to analyse the behaviour and performance of the various institutional sectors and to carry out cross-country comparisons.
• Eleven financial indicators derived from financial balance sheets, national accounts and the institutional investors' assets datasets have been added to the Dashboard in 2012.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa
Databases
• OECD Financial Dashboard
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• New financial indicators for the Households' sector will be added to the Financial Dashboard in 2013.
Data collection
• Collection of 2012 financial accounts and financial balance sheets data which enable the calculation of financial indicators for the year 2012.
Quarterly National Accounts
Purpose
• To provide a real time update of member and non-member countries' sets of quarterly national accounts to internal users, mainly the OECD Economics Department. Quarterly national accounts constitute a significant input into the OECD's macro-economic modelling and forecasting work.
• To provide external users a selection of key long time series from countries' quarterly national accounts, some area totals and a consistent and internationally comparable set of data for analytical purposes.
Objectives and outputs
• The OECD Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) database presents data collected from countries on the basis of a standardised OECD/Eurostat questionnaire based on the international system of national accounts (SNA 1993, SNA 2008). It contains, as from 1960 whenever possible (and even before for a few countries), a wide selection of the accounts produced by the 34 member countries and Key Partners.
• Work is concentrated on producing relevant, reliable, consistent, comparable and timely quarterly national accounts data.
• The QNA publications contain a selection of the accounts most widely used for economic analysis: GDP - expenditure and output approaches (current prices and volume estimates), GDP income approach (current prices), Saving and net lending (current prices), Gross fixed capital formation (current prices and volume estimates) broken down separately by type of asset and by institutional sector, Disposable income and Real disposable income components, Population and Employment, Compensation of employees by industry, Employment by industry, Household final consumption expenditure (current prices and volume estimates) by durability and by purpose.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
• Quarterly National Accounts (QNA)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Continue to extend the coverage of the database by the inclusion of new accounts/series provided by countries.
• Expand the geographical coverage of the QNA database by including more updated data from Key Partner countries and remaining G20 countries (Argentina and Saudi Arabia).
Quarterly Public Sector Debt
Purpose
• The Public Sector Debt Statistics Database was launched in December 2010 and was initially focused on developing and emerging economies, and is now being expanded to the advanced economies. The launch of the database is one of the recommendations in the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative (Recommendation 18). This Initiative has been endorsed by G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and also by the IMF’s International Monetary and Financial Committee.
• The request covers total general government and public sector debt, broken down by details on instruments, maturity, the residence of creditor, and currency. While data are generally recorded at nominal value, there is a supplementary item for data on debt securities to be shown at market value. Data are to be provided for the various institutional levels, specifically central government, general government, and, if possible, the public sector, where available.
Objectives and outputs
• Collect detailed and comparable quarterly data on the General Government Debt, the Central Government Debt and more broadly the Public Sector Debt for all OECD countries.
• Since January 2013, 33 OECD countries have provided detailed data on General and Central government debt. Russia participates in this initiative as well.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa.
Databases
• Quarterly Public Sector Debt (7PSD)
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• All OECD countries except Chile provide the OECD/WB/IMF with quarterly data on Public Sector Debt.
• Eurostat participates in this initiative for some EU countries by prefilling the PSD questionnaire with Maastricht debt data.
Quarterly Sector Accounts (Financial part)
Purpose
• To provide financial quarterly sector accounts data of member and non-member G20 countries for internal and external users.
• The G20 Recommendation 15 has identified Sector accounts (annual and quarterly) as essential statistics to monitor economies.
• The OECD is responsible for collecting and disseminating detailed quarterly sectoral accounts for OECD member countries and other non-member G20 countries.
Objectives and outputs
• The collection of data relating to Quarterly financial accounts and quarterly financial balance sheets, launched in 2011, and stored in the new QASA browser, will continue in cooperation with ECB (for EU countries).
• The aim is to better cover all OECD countries, including EU countries, and, when data are available, also key partner countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
Quarterly Financial Accounts and Financial Balance Sheets
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Some improvement are expected regarding non-EU countries. For EU countries data, which are transmitted by the ECB once validated, it is hoped that pending problems will be rapidly solved.
Data collection
• It is expected to improve the coverage of this database (countries, sectors and instruments) and to solve issues relating to the ECB cooperation.
Quarterly Sector Accounts (Non-Financial part)
Purpose
• To provide non-financial quarterly sector accounts data of member and non-member G20 countries for internal and external users.
• The G20 Recommendation 15 identified Sector accounts as essential statistics to monitor economies.
• The OECD is responsible for collecting and disseminating detailed quarterly sectoral accounts for OECD member countries and other non-member G20 countries.
Objectives and outputs
• Continue to collect non-financial Quarterly Sector Accounts (QSA) data for EU countries in close collaboration with Eurostat; Collect non-EU QSA data through standard questionnaires.
• Release publishable QSA data in OECD.stat and feed the IMF PGI- website with the G20 QSA data.
• Non-member countries involved in the activity:
• Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
Databases
• Non-financial Quarterly Sector Accounts
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Continue collecting data from non-EU countries which have not yet transmitted data to the OECD through the standard questionnaire.
• Extend the release of QSA data on OECD.Stat with new publishable data.
• Continue to feed the IMF PGI-website with G20 QSA data.
STAN Input-Output database
Purpose
• To provide a comprehensive database for cross country analyses of industrial structures, the interrelationships between consumers and producers, and the interactions between countries (e.g. as regards outsourcing and trade flows).
• The current OECD input-output database is based on detailed national accounts estimates of economic activity and interrelationships within economies. The database is based on an ISIC Rev.3 and is consistent with the latest system of national accounts (SNA93). Data for 33 OECD countries and 11 non-member countries are currently available, with latest data for many countries referring to 2005 with tables also available for most countries for 2000 or nearest year and for the mid-1990s.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chinese Taipei, Cyprus, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Other, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia Former, South Africa, Thailand
Databases
• STAN Input-Output database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Expand the country coverage (e.g. non-OECD EU countries).
• Use latest Supply-Use tables (SUTs) to produce harmonised I-O tables for 2008-09. especially for EU countries.
• Continue to develop and improve the Inter-Country I-O (ICIO) model which combines the I-O tables, Supply-Use tables and bilateral trade by industry data to produce the key underlying source for production of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators.2.3 Business statistics (OECD)
Business Statistics and Entrepreneurship
Purpose
• To provide official annual data for detailed industrial and service sectors (at the 4 digit ISIC level), consistent and relevant for international comparison in order to meet policy makers' and analysts' needs for structural business statistics for detailed economic sectors. Three databases are currently maintained.
• To develop a program of internationally-comparable indicators of entrepreneurship, its determinants and its impacts, to inform policy-analysis and policy-making. This activity is called Entrepreneurship Indicators Program (EIP).
Objectives and outputs
• The databases on structural business statistics (SSIS) and (BSC), updated through a joint questionnaire with UNIDO, contain annual data on core economic variables, relating to both industry and services, at a very detailed level of ISIC revision 3 (up to the 4th digit level). They cover such variables as production, value added, investment, number of enterprises, employment, wages and salaries, and hours worked. Statistics are derived mainly from structural business surveys, censuses and administrative sources.
• The BSC database contains this information broken down by enterprise size class.
• Business Demography statistics include indicators of birth, death and survival rates and high growth firms - all based on the Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics published in 2007.
• The publication Entrepreneurship at a Glance, published annually, presents the original collection of business demography indicators and structural statistics on businesses by size class.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia Former
Databases
• SDBS - Business Demography Indicators
• SDBS – Structural Business Statistics
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Expected improvements to SDBS statistics in 2013 include:
- the extension of the country coverage in the collection of comparable business demography statistics;
- the publication of the third issue of Entrepreneurship at a Glance in June 2013.
Data collection
• Extension of the country coverage in the collection of entrepreneurship statistics is expected. It is also expected that other entrepreneurship indicators will be identified and added.2.4 Sectoral statistics (OECD)
2.4.1 Agriculture, forestry, fisheries (OECD)
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022
Purpose
• To provide an annual update of statistical information and projections by country for OECD members, the OECD area, selected non-member countries, other developing and least developed countries and regional and world aggregates, of supply and use balances for cereals, oilseeds, biofuels, sugar, cotton, meats, dairy and fish products up to 2022.
Objectives and outputs
• To maintain a database with detailed supply and use information for most temperate zone agricultural commodities. The tables provide detailed information for production, consumption, trade, stocks and prices in OECD countries and a large number of other countries including China, Argentina, Brazil, India, South Africa, Russia and other CIS independent states and many smaller countries and regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Most series cover the period from 1970 to the most current year and include updated annual projections for up to ten years in the future.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• South Africa
Databases
• The Agricultural Commodities Database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Cotton
Data collection:
Cotton.
Producer and Consumer Support Estimates in OECD Countries and selected economies
Purpose
• To collect, process, evaluate and publish data on support to agriculture in OECD countries. The activity also provides staff with a database for various research and analysis activities of the Directorate. This is a joint activity between the "Agricultural Policies and Environment", the "Development" and the "Policies and Trade in Agriculture" Divisions of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate.
Objectives and outputs
• To update the Producer and Consumer Support Estimate annual database and to calculate the various indicators of support to agriculture. The data are used to evaluate agricultural and other policies in OECD countries, mainly in the annual Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries Report, which is reviewed and approved by the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets.
• The data collected and the method used to calculate the indicators of support are reviewed both internally within TAD, and externally by the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets, on an annual basis. These review processes improve the data quality as well as the methodology used in the calculations.
• In this context, a new classification of the component parts of the support estimates was implemented from the 2007 Agricultural Policies in OECD countries Monitoring and Evaluation report. The database was extended to cover the new member countries in 2009 and 2010. A user friendly tool is being developed on the website for greater availability of the quantitative and analytical information to the public.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, Cyprus, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia Former, South Africa, Ukraine
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• The 2013 report covers the OECD countries as well as selected non-member economies.
• The major innovation will consist in integrating new non-member economies (Indonesia, Kazakhstan) in the database and analysis as well as pursuing developments to design the web site for improved dissemination of statistical information.
Review of Fisheries in OECD Countries - 2013
Purpose
• To collect and present data for the publication Review of Fisheries. To provide staff, and other potential users, with a database for research and analysis purposes. The latter applies to the Policy Reviews as well as other activities of the Division. To provide other Directorates with data on fisheries resources.
Objectives and outputs
• The principal purpose is to collect and make available data on a consistent basis among member countries (and observers) of statistics relevant to fisheries i.e. landings (harvest) and processing, fleet, fishers, employment, trade (via the ITS database), aquaculture and government financial transfers. The data are used nationally, principally for reporting purposes and internationally (e.g. OECD), for analytical purposes. Data also serve as reference for other international organisations and as a means for cross-checking and reconciling information from national sources.
• Questionnaires and tables are sent (annually) to national correspondents following discussion and approval by the Committee for Fisheries. Data are collected and disseminated in the Review of Fisheries Statistics. Data published are also accessible via the public fisheries web site and more recent series through the Committee Web Site. At the international level co-ordination takes place among agencies involved in fisheries statistical programmes through the Co-ordinated Working Party (CWP) on Fisheries Statistics. The OECD is in close co-operation with the FAO and EUROSTAT in the collection of fisheries data. This is done, inter alia, with a view to avoid overlapping activities.
• The data collected (and the procedures) are reviewed by the Committee for Fisheries on an annual basis. Internationally, improvements are carried out through the CWP.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Chinese Taipei, Russian Federation, Thailand.
Databases
• Review of Fisheries in OECD Countries
Main Developments for 2013
• General aspects
• Continued improvements in metadata and comparison possibilities across member countries. The Government Financial Transfer (GFT) data are now included in the database. Data are now available to the public via the fisheries web site. Chinese Taipei and Thailand have been included since 2006, then Argentina.2.4.3 Mining, manufacturing, construction (OECD)
Steel
Purpose
• To provide the statistical background needed for policy discussions in the Steel Committee. Statistics are also produced for publications on steelmaking capacity in non-OECD economies.
Objectives and outputs
• A steel statistical report is produced two times a year in order to provide participants of the Steel Committee with a broad range of information on the world steel industry and related raw material markets. These statistics enhance transparency and facilitate discussion by member and non-member economies on challenging policy issues facing the industry. More specifically, the statistical work includes gathering data on steel supply (capacity, production), demand, prices, trade, employment, and trade policy measures, in addition to market data on raw materials used in steelmaking (iron ore, coal, coke, ferrous scrap, and ferroalloys).
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Asia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Europe, Georgia, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Other, Peru, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Slovenia Former, South Africa, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, World.
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Data coverage has slowly expanded over time, with data on safety and health indicators of steel industry workers now included.2.4.4 Transport (OECD)
Annual Transport Statistics
Purpose
• To provide annual transport information presenting disaggregated statistical data in the transport sector.
Objectives and outputs
• Data are collected in a harmonised way to facilitate comparisons between modes of transport and between countries by means of the Common Questionnaire developed jointly between three international organisations: Eurostat, ITF and UNECE.
• Data cover topics such as infrastructure, rolling stock, human resources, investment, transport, traffic and energy consumption for different inland transport modes.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• ITF is developing a corporate database to integrate the information collected by means of the Common Questionnaire. According to new reorganisation the ITF corporate database will be transferred into OECD StatWorks during 2013. The data will therefore be available in OECD DotStat.
International Database of Taxes and Charges for Road Freight Transport
Purpose
• To provide indicators for efficiency and impact on competition of taxes and charges for transport in order to allow international comparisons.
Objectives and outputs
• The report provides a framework for international comparisons and discusses the economic principles for efficient systems of taxation. It provides a basis for addressing the questions "what is the right level for transport taxes" and "what kinds of charges should be used".
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• No major changes.
Investment in Transport Infrastructure
Purpose
• To provide an annual update of statistical information on transport infrastructure investment, for all ITF countries, on total gross investment and maintenance expenditure in current national prices.
Objectives and outputs
• After processing the data, quality checks are carried out to select reliable time series to be made available on the web site along with a short analysis of trends. Data is converted into current Euros and in constant prices.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, India, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Data quality was improved by using more appropriated deflators when available.
• A Task Force has been launch in 2012 to provide recommendations to improve data quality.
Quarterly Transport Statistics
Purpose
• To provide harmonised information on selected basic quarterly indicators in order to compare the latest inland transport trends between countries.
Objectives and outputs
• To publish results every three months on the ITF web site, on a country by country basis with 4-5 months lag maximum (data for the first quarter is collected in June and published in July). Available series cover good transport in T-km, passenger transport in P-Km, road traffic in V-Km, brand new vehicles registration, car fuel consumption, road fatalities, imports and exports at current prices and industrial production.
• Country by country data tables are available, as well as graphs showing trends for both individual countries and selected groups of countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Starting mid 2009, an analytical report based on seasonally adjusted data is published each quarter on the ITF WEB site.
• Information on air and maritime transport are integrated in the analysis to provide a global view on the transport activity.
• An annual leaflet "key Transport Statistics" based on data for the 4 quarters is published each year in May for the ITF annual Summit in Leipzig.
Trends in the Transport Sector
Purpose
• To provide a first analysis of both passenger and freight transport trends, as well as road accident trends. A short list of selected indicators are collected for that purpose.
Objectives and outputs
• To publish an analysis of the transport situation in different geographical regions. The publication also gives the latest statistics on the situation of the transport market in ITF countries and presents charts which help to show what changes have occurred since 1970.
• Because it is published earlier than any other comparable study, this report provides first-hand figures about passenger and freight transport as well as road accidents.
• Since 2008 the publication also includes information on investment and maintenance expenses in transport infrastructures. For the 2013 edition investment data will be published separately.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, India, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine.
Databases
• Goods transport, Passenger transport and Injury accidents.
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• A redesign of the publication is under review and should be in place for the 2013 edition already. It will provide historic tables for selected transport indicators as well as country tables showing the latest data for most variables with composed indicators.2.4.5 Tourism (OECD)
Tourism
Purpose
• To meet the 2012-2016 Mandate of the Tourism Committee: a) improve the measurement of tourism services in OECD economies by addressing government and industry information needs and promoting the tourism satellite account; b) contribute to the dissemination of data on tourism economics and to a more effective use of such data for business and policy analysis and decision-making processes; and c) work in complementarity with other international organisations.
Objectives and outputs
• In 2013, the fourth edition of "OECD Tourism trends and policies 2014" will be launched. It will continue to be undertaken in cooperation with the European Committee. Around 50 countries will be covered. These data will be collected by two methods: a questionnaire will be addressed to countries; data extracted from OECD data bases. On the other hand, efforts will be made towards the dissemination of data and analysis on tourism economics at national and local levels. Special efforts will tend to promote the use of Tourism Satellite Account to public and private tourism stakeholders. In 2013, the activity on "Measuring tourism economic impacts at sub national level" will aim to propose orientations for statistical improvements and collect current initiatives and practices in this area.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Albania, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, South Africa
Databases
• Tourism.2.4.6 Banking, insurance, financial statistics (OECD)
Short-Term Financial Indicators
Purpose
• To capture in quantitative terms an important but heterogeneous and fast evolving area of the financial markets.
Objectives and outputs
• The Short Term Financial Indicators dataset contains financial statistics on four separate subjects: Monetary Aggregates, Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and Share Prices. In all cases considerable effort has been made to ensure that the data are internationally comparable across all countries presented and that all the subjects have good historical time-series' data to aid with analysis.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa
Databases
• MEI_FIN2.5 Government finance, fiscal and public sector statistics (OECD)
Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government
Purpose
• To collect data to support the activities of the Network on Fiscal Relations across Levels of Government. This includes data on sub national governments' discretion over own revenues and expenditures, on the design of local taxes, on intergovernmental transfers, on sub-central deficits and debt, on indicators of decentralisation, and on macroeconomic management of sub-central finance (fiscal rules).
Objectives and outputs
• Collection and user-friendly presentation of decentralisation indicators.
Databases
• Fiscal decentralisation
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Data are updated annually. In 2013, data on deficit, debt, and fiscal rules will be available, presented in a user-friendly way on the Fiscal Network's own website.
Revenue Statistics
Purpose
• This annual publication presents a unique set of internationally comparable data on tax revenue levels and tax structures in a common format for all OECD countries from 1965 onwards. It also provides a conceptual framework to define which government receipts should be regarded as taxes and to classify different types of taxes.
• Data on government sector receipts and in particular on taxes are essential inputs to many structural economic analyses of individual countries and are increasingly used in international comparisons.
Objectives and outputs
• The tax revenues are primarily grouped into the following high level categories representing the different bases on which taxes are charged. The main groupings are:
- Taxes on income profits and capital gains
- Social security contributions
- Taxes on payroll and workforce
- Taxes on property
- Taxes on goods and services
- Other taxes
• The material is organised in four separate parts. In the main, the data are presented on an accrual basis. The 2013 edition will therefore comprise:
- A commentary on the overall trends over 45 years in levels f the tax burden, the structure of tax revenues and the attribution of revenues by level of government for OECD as a whole and for individual member countries.
- A set of comparative tables and charts describing tax revenues and tax structures for the years 1965-2012.
- A detailed breakdown of tax revenues for each member country for the years 1965-2012 plus some information on how countries finance their social benefits and on social security contributions paid by the general government.
- Comparative tables showing the attribution of government revenues by level of government plus tables for each country analysing the attribution of tax revenues by level of government for the main tax headings.
• The data for each country are presented in a standardised framework based upon the OECD classification of taxes and its Interpretative Guide described in the publication. The Guide provides a definition of tax revenues and then follows with a definition of both high level and specific tax issues.
• Special features covering specific areas of interest (e.g. the interpretation of tax-to-GDP ratios; the impact of revised GDP figures on reported tax levels; changes to the rules for attributing revenues by level of government) represent an important component of the annual report.
Databases
• Revenue Statistics
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• It is planned to advance the early website publication of the latest results to September - about two months prior to the book publication becoming available.
• Consideration will be given to changing the presentation of the data so that the data for the latest year is no longer marked as provisional.
• There is also a project being conducted with the IMF to investigate the potential for a joint data collection template for OECD Revenue statistics and the IMF's Government Finance Statistics.
Revenue Statistics in Latin America
Purpose
• A strong set of comparative data is key to facilitating fiscal policy dialogue and the assessment of alternative fiscal reforms. 'Revenue Statistics in Latin America is joint publication by the OECD, the inter-American Centre for Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The second edition published in November 2012 provided internationally comparable data on tax levels and tax structures for some 15 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.
• The publication follows the model of the OECD Revenue Statistics database which is based on the OECD Interpretative Guide - a well-established methodology which provides a conceptual framework to define which government receipts should be regarded as taxes and to classify different types of taxes. By extending this OECD methodology to LAC countries, Revenue Statistics in Latin America enables meaningful cross-country comparisons about tax levels and structures not only between LAC economies, but also, for the first time, between them and OECD countries (including Chile and Mexico).
Objectives and outputs
• The tax revenues are primarily grouped into the following high level categories essentially representing the different bases on which the taxes are charged. The main groupings are:
- Taxes on income, profits and capital gains
- Social security contributions
- Taxes on payroll and workforce
- Taxes on property
- Taxes on goods and services
- Other taxes
• The material is organised in five separate parts. In the main, the data are presented on a cash basis. The second edition comprised:
- A commentary on the overall trends in levels of tax burden over 200 years, the structure of tax revenues and the attribution of revenues by level of government for 15 LAC countries and the OECD as a whole.
- A set of comparative tables and charts describing tax revenues and tax structures for the years 1990 to 2010 for the same groups plus Portugal and Spain.
- A detailed breakdown of tax revenues for each of the selected LAC countries for the years 1990-2010.
- A comparative table showing the attribution of government revenues by level of government plus tables for each country analysing the attribution of tax revenues by level of government for the main tax headings.
- A special feature titled 'Taxation and SMEs in Latin America'.
• The data for each country are presented in a standardised framework based upon the OECD classification of taxes and is Interpretative Guide described in the publication. The Guide provides a definition of tax revenues and then follows with a discussion of both high level and specific classification issues.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Databases
• Revenue Statistics in Latin America
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Delay the publication to enable the inclusion of 2012 data on tax revenues
• Approach countries asking them to supply the relevant data directly to the OECD or to verify/validate the data assembled by the OECD.
Data collection
• Delay the publication to enable the inclusion of 2012 data on tax revenues.
Tax Rates
Purpose
• The OECD tax database provides a comprehensive set of comparative statistics to support tax policy makers, academics and other organisations doing research into tax policy, journalists and other commentators.
• The information covers data on:
- Tax revenue statistics
- Personal taxes
- Corporate and capital income taxes
- Taxes on consumption
Objectives and outputs
• The following represents a summary of the outputs containing comparative data for OECD countries that are included in the database:
- OECD Revenue statistics - a subset of the main comparative tables contained in this publication
- Personal income taxes
- Basic income tax rates and thresholds from 1981 onwards including information on maximum and minimum sub-central government rates; top marginal rates for a single individual
- Rates and provisions for social security contributions paid by employees, employers and the self-employed from 1981 onwards
- Various tables relating to the tax burden on wage income based on the Taxing Wages framework
- An analysis of non-tax compulsory payments which do not qualify as taxes in 2012.
- Corporate and capital income taxes - standard statutory corporate income tax rates from 1981 onwards; information on small business tax rates and other targeted provisions; corporate tax rates relating to sub-central governments including information on minimum and maximum rates; effective statutory tax rates on distributions of domestic source income to residential share-holders.
- Consumption taxes - rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) (from 1976 onwards) including information on reduced rates; registration thresholds for entities participating in the VAT regime plus rates and thresholds for excise taxes (from 23003 onwards) covering alcoholic beverages, tobacco and mineral oils.
Databases
• OECD Tax Database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Some re-designing of the website to make the presentation clearer.
Taxing Wages
Purpose
• This publication provides details of taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers:
- Personal income taxes and social security contributions paid by employees
- Social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers
- Cash benefits received by in-work families
• The purpose is to illustrate how these taxes and benefits are calculated in each member country and to examine how they impact on household incomes. The results also enable quantitative cross-country comparisons of labour cost levels and the overall tax and benefit position of single persons and families on different levels of earnings.
Objectives and outputs
• The annual publication details shows amounts of taxes and social security contributions levied and cash benefits received for 8 different family types which vary by a combination of household composition and level of earnings. It also presents the resulting average and marginal tax rates (i.e. the tax burden);
- Average tax rates show that part of gross wage earnings or total labour costs which is taken in tax and social security contributions (both before and after cash benefits).
- Marginal tax rates show the part of a small increase in of gross earnings or total labour costs that is paid in these levies.
- The definition of an average worker is based on Sectors B-N in ISIC4 for the purposes of these calculations.
• The 2012 Report will contain:
- A review of the main comparative results for 2011 and 2012.
- A graphical exposition of the tax burden between 50% and 250% of average earnings
- Historical trends for 2000-2012
- Descriptions of tax/benefit systems for each country together with the associated tax burden results.
- A special feature titled 'Average personal income tax rate and tax wedge progression'.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa
Databases
• Taxing Wages
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• It is planned to advance the early web-based publication of the latest results to March - about two months prior to the book publication becoming available.
Benefits and Wages
Purpose
• Monitor reforms of tax and benefits systems and their impact on work incentives and income adequacy. Results are used as the basis of the OECD's "Benefits and Wages" publication and as inputs into a wide range of studies produced within and outside the OECD. In addition, the group develops and maintains tax-benefit models. These computer models allow a wide range of tax and benefit indicators to be produced. Finally, the online "tax-benefit calculator" and tax-benefit models for 33 OECD and an additional 6 EU countries are available on the web-page www.oecd.org/els/social/workincentives and are updated annually.
• The Benefits and Wages series addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations. The series is a valuable tool used to compare the different benefits made available to those without work and those with different levels of in-work income. The resulting indicators (such as 'net replacement rates') are useful for addressing issues of both work incentives and adequacy of household incomes.
• Recent updates include calculations of incomes and work incentives net of childcare costs. Country coverage has been extended to include a 2011 model for Chile. Preliminary models have been developed for Russia.
• An interface for interactive web access to tax-benefit models ("tax-benefit calculator") is available on the web-page www.oecd.org/els/social/workincentives. Also available on this web page are country files and model output for 39 countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation
Databases
• Benefits and Wages
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• On-line publication of 2011 tax-benefit models, country files and an expanded range of work incentive and income adequacy indicators for 39 countries. Ad hoc update of policy summary tables. Development of 2012 models for 39 countries (plus adding Chile years prior to 2011 for Chile). Continue up-date of synthetic earnings distribution data, by gender, to latest post-crisis year available.
Data collection
• include Chile.2.6 International trade and balance of payments (OECD)
Creditor Reporting System (CRS) Aid Activity Database
2.7 Prices (OECD)Price Indicators
2.9 Science and technology (OECD)Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development
2.5 Government finance, fiscal and public sector statistics (OECD)
Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government
Purpose
• To collect data to support the activities of the Network on Fiscal Relations across Levels of Government. This includes data on sub national governments' discretion over own revenues and expenditures, on the design of local taxes, on intergovernmental transfers, on sub-central deficits and debt, on indicators of decentralisation, and on macroeconomic management of sub-central finance (fiscal rules).
Objectives and outputs
• Collection and user-friendly presentation of decentralisation indicators.
Databases
• Fiscal decentralisation
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Data are updated annually. In 2013, data on deficit, debt, and fiscal rules will be available, presented in a user-friendly way on the Fiscal Network's own website.
Revenue Statistics
Purpose
• This annual publication presents a unique set of internationally comparable data on tax revenue levels and tax structures in a common format for all OECD countries from 1965 onwards. It also provides a conceptual framework to define which government receipts should be regarded as taxes and to classify different types of taxes.
• Data on government sector receipts and in particular on taxes are essential inputs to many structural economic analyses of individual countries and are increasingly used in international comparisons.
Objectives and outputs
• The tax revenues are primarily grouped into the following high level categories representing the different bases on which taxes are charged. The main groupings are:
- Taxes on income profits and capital gains
- Social security contributions
- Taxes on payroll and workforce
- Taxes on property
- Taxes on goods and services
- Other taxes
• The material is organised in four separate parts. In the main, the data are presented on an accrual basis. The 2013 edition will therefore comprise:
- A commentary on the overall trends over 45 years in levels f the tax burden, the structure of tax revenues and the attribution of revenues by level of government for OECD as a whole and for individual member countries.
- A set of comparative tables and charts describing tax revenues and tax structures for the years 1965-2012.
- A detailed breakdown of tax revenues for each member country for the years 1965-2012 plus some information on how countries finance their social benefits and on social security contributions paid by the general government.
- Comparative tables showing the attribution of government revenues by level of government plus tables for each country analysing the attribution of tax revenues by level of government for the main tax headings.
• The data for each country are presented in a standardised framework based upon the OECD classification of taxes and its Interpretative Guide described in the publication. The Guide provides a definition of tax revenues and then follows with a definition of both high level and specific tax issues.
• Special features covering specific areas of interest (e.g. the interpretation of tax-to-GDP ratios; the impact of revised GDP figures on reported tax levels; changes to the rules for attributing revenues by level of government) represent an important component of the annual report.
Databases
• Revenue Statistics
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• It is planned to advance the early website publication of the latest results to September - about two months prior to the book publication becoming available.
• Consideration will be given to changing the presentation of the data so that the data for the latest year is no longer marked as provisional.
• There is also a project being conducted with the IMF to investigate the potential for a joint data collection template for OECD Revenue statistics and the IMF's Government Finance Statistics.
Revenue Statistics in Latin America
Purpose
• A strong set of comparative data is key to facilitating fiscal policy dialogue and the assessment of alternative fiscal reforms. 'Revenue Statistics in Latin America is joint publication by the OECD, the inter-American Centre for Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The second edition published in November 2012 provided internationally comparable data on tax levels and tax structures for some 15 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.
• The publication follows the model of the OECD Revenue Statistics database which is based on the OECD Interpretative Guide - a well-established methodology which provides a conceptual framework to define which government receipts should be regarded as taxes and to classify different types of taxes. By extending this OECD methodology to LAC countries, Revenue Statistics in Latin America enables meaningful cross-country comparisons about tax levels and structures not only between LAC economies, but also, for the first time, between them and OECD countries (including Chile and Mexico).
Objectives and outputs
• The tax revenues are primarily grouped into the following high level categories essentially representing the different bases on which the taxes are charged. The main groupings are:
- Taxes on income, profits and capital gains
- Social security contributions
- Taxes on payroll and workforce
- Taxes on property
- Taxes on goods and services
- Other taxes
• The material is organised in five separate parts. In the main, the data are presented on a cash basis. The second edition comprised:
- A commentary on the overall trends in levels of tax burden over 200 years, the structure of tax revenues and the attribution of revenues by level of government for 15 LAC countries and the OECD as a whole.
- A set of comparative tables and charts describing tax revenues and tax structures for the years 1990 to 2010 for the same groups plus Portugal and Spain.
- A detailed breakdown of tax revenues for each of the selected LAC countries for the years 1990-2010.
- A comparative table showing the attribution of government revenues by level of government plus tables for each country analysing the attribution of tax revenues by level of government for the main tax headings.
- A special feature titled 'Taxation and SMEs in Latin America'.
• The data for each country are presented in a standardised framework based upon the OECD classification of taxes and is Interpretative Guide described in the publication. The Guide provides a definition of tax revenues and then follows with a discussion of both high level and specific classification issues.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Databases
• Revenue Statistics in Latin America
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Delay the publication to enable the inclusion of 2012 data on tax revenues
• Approach countries asking them to supply the relevant data directly to the OECD or to verify/validate the data assembled by the OECD.
Data collection
• Delay the publication to enable the inclusion of 2012 data on tax revenues.
Tax Rates
Purpose
• The OECD tax database provides a comprehensive set of comparative statistics to support tax policy makers, academics and other organisations doing research into tax policy, journalists and other commentators.
• The information covers data on:
- Tax revenue statistics
- Personal taxes
- Corporate and capital income taxes
- Taxes on consumption
Objectives and outputs
• The following represents a summary of the outputs containing comparative data for OECD countries that are included in the database:
- OECD Revenue statistics - a subset of the main comparative tables contained in this publication
- Personal income taxes
- Basic income tax rates and thresholds from 1981 onwards including information on maximum and minimum sub-central government rates; top marginal rates for a single individual
- Rates and provisions for social security contributions paid by employees, employers and the self-employed from 1981 onwards
- Various tables relating to the tax burden on wage income based on the Taxing Wages framework
- An analysis of non-tax compulsory payments which do not qualify as taxes in 2012.
- Corporate and capital income taxes - standard statutory corporate income tax rates from 1981 onwards; information on small business tax rates and other targeted provisions; corporate tax rates relating to sub-central governments including information on minimum and maximum rates; effective statutory tax rates on distributions of domestic source income to residential share-holders.
- Consumption taxes - rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) (from 1976 onwards) including information on reduced rates; registration thresholds for entities participating in the VAT regime plus rates and thresholds for excise taxes (from 23003 onwards) covering alcoholic beverages, tobacco and mineral oils.
Databases
• OECD Tax Database
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• Some re-designing of the website to make the presentation clearer.
Taxing Wages
Purpose
• This publication provides details of taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers:
- Personal income taxes and social security contributions paid by employees
- Social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers
- Cash benefits received by in-work families
• The purpose is to illustrate how these taxes and benefits are calculated in each member country and to examine how they impact on household incomes. The results also enable quantitative cross-country comparisons of labour cost levels and the overall tax and benefit position of single persons and families on different levels of earnings.
Objectives and outputs
• The annual publication details shows amounts of taxes and social security contributions levied and cash benefits received for 8 different family types which vary by a combination of household composition and level of earnings. It also presents the resulting average and marginal tax rates (i.e. the tax burden);
- Average tax rates show that part of gross wage earnings or total labour costs which is taken in tax and social security contributions (both before and after cash benefits).
- Marginal tax rates show the part of a small increase in of gross earnings or total labour costs that is paid in these levies.
- The definition of an average worker is based on Sectors B-N in ISIC4 for the purposes of these calculations.
• The 2012 Report will contain:
- A review of the main comparative results for 2011 and 2012.
- A graphical exposition of the tax burden between 50% and 250% of average earnings
- Historical trends for 2000-2012
- Descriptions of tax/benefit systems for each country together with the associated tax burden results.
- A special feature titled 'Average personal income tax rate and tax wedge progression'.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa
Databases
• Taxing Wages
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• It is planned to advance the early web-based publication of the latest results to March - about two months prior to the book publication becoming available.
Benefits and Wages
Purpose
• Monitor reforms of tax and benefits systems and their impact on work incentives and income adequacy. Results are used as the basis of the OECD's "Benefits and Wages" publication and as inputs into a wide range of studies produced within and outside the OECD. In addition, the group develops and maintains tax-benefit models. These computer models allow a wide range of tax and benefit indicators to be produced. Finally, the online "tax-benefit calculator" and tax-benefit models for 33 OECD and an additional 6 EU countries are available on the web-page www.oecd.org/els/social/workincentives and are updated annually.
• The Benefits and Wages series addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations. The series is a valuable tool used to compare the different benefits made available to those without work and those with different levels of in-work income. The resulting indicators (such as 'net replacement rates') are useful for addressing issues of both work incentives and adequacy of household incomes.
• Recent updates include calculations of incomes and work incentives net of childcare costs. Country coverage has been extended to include a 2011 model for Chile. Preliminary models have been developed for Russia.
• An interface for interactive web access to tax-benefit models ("tax-benefit calculator") is available on the web-page www.oecd.org/els/social/workincentives. Also available on this web page are country files and model output for 39 countries.
Non-member countries involved in the activity
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Russian Federation
Databases
• Benefits and Wages
Main Developments for 2013
General aspects
• On-line publication of 2011 tax-benefit models, country files and an expanded range of work incentive and income adequacy indicators for 39 countries. Ad hoc update of policy summary tables. Development of 2012 models for 39 countries (plus adding Chile years prior to 2011 for Chile). Continue up-date of synthetic earnings distribution data, by gender, to latest post-crisis year available.
Data collection
• include Chile.
2.6 International trade and balance of payments (OECD)
Creditor Reporting System (CRS) Aid Activity Database
2.7 Prices (OECD)
Price Indicators
2.9 Science and technology (OECD)