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Produit intérieur brut trimestriel et autres statistiques des Comptes nationaux trimestriels de l'OCDE

Dans les Comptes nationaux trimestriels de l'OCDE vosu trouverez les taux de croissance du PIB, le PIB par dépense et industrie, l'investissement, le revenu disponible, épargne et capacité/besoin de financement, PIB optique des revenus.

Eurostat-OECD compilation guide on inventories - 2017 edition

Statistical Insights: What does household debt say about financial resilience?

‌Household debt levels increased rapidly in many economies in the run-up to the 2007-2008 financial crisis, fuelled in part by easy credit and rising property prices. Ratios of debt to annual income – used by lenders to determine households’ repayment capacity – then reached record highs across OECD countries. These debt levels have since continued to rise in most OECD countries...

Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth?

Statistics Working Paper N. 85, 2017/9 - The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of measured productivity growth, this has raised questions about the conceptual basis of GDP and output...

Statistical Insights: What role for supply-use tables?

Supply-use tables provide the key accounting mechanism to ensure coherence between the various sources of data and approaches countries use to estimate GDP–expenditure, output and income. They also have the potential to inform a wide range of policy areas. What are supply-use tables? Supply-use tables (SUTs) provide a detailed overview of transactions in goods and services by industries and consumers.

A primer on government-sponsored pension schemes in the national accounts and their impact on the interpretation of government debt statistics

Statistics Working Paper N. 81, 2017/5 - Government debt has many characteristics and thus cannot be fully captured by one indicator. There are several different ways of defining government debt, and each definition can lead to different interpretations of a government’s financial situation. This working paper will summarise some of the major differences in defining and measuring government debt and, based on available data, ...

En 2014, la plupart des pays de l’OCDE ont révisé le niveau de leur PIB à la hausse

Le système des comptes nationaux 2008 (SCN08) est en cours d'application dans les pays OCDE. Les changements méthodologiques qui ont le plus d’impact sur la révision du niveau du PIB concernent l’investissement.

Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework: results from the 2015 exercise

Statistics Working Paper N. 76, 2016/10 - In 2011, an Expert Group was launched to carry out a feasibility study on the compilation of distributional measures of income, consumption and wealth across household groups consistent with national accounts data. This group developed a methodology on the basis of which first experimental results on income, consumption and savings according to income quintiles were compiled and published...

Statistical Insights: What does GDP per capita tell us about households’ material well-being?

Although GDP per capita is often used as a broad measure of average living standards, high levels of GDP per capita do not necessarily mean high levels of household disposable income, a key measure of average material well-being of people.

Measuring GDP in a digitalised economy

Statistics Working Paper N. 73, 2016/7 - Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer transactions, such as AirBnB and Uber, new activities such as crowd sourcing,...