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NBS-OECD Workshops on National Accounts

NBS-OECD Workshops on National Accounts

The Statistics Brief N. 19 - Measuring inequality in income and consumption in a national accounts framework

Measurement and analysis of income inequality has long been a topic of OECD work and seized renewed attention with the OECD’s Better Life Initiative. Measuring distributions across dimensions above and beyond income (health, education, etc.) are also at the heart of the OECD’s How’s Life? statistical agenda and form a prominent recommendation in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi report.

Understanding National Accounts – latest edition now out

The OECD has updated its key textbook explaining how economic activity is monitored and measured.

Understanding National Accounts - Second Edition

The Statistics Brief N. 18 - The Non-Observed Economy in the System of National Accounts

This Statistics Brief presents a typology of non-observed economy (NOE) phenomena, discusses two broad classes of methods to estimate the size of the NOE (methods applied in the national accounts compilation versus macro-econometric methods), and presents national accounts based NOE estimates obtained through a survey of OECD countries in 2011-12.

Distributional measures across household groups in a national accounts framework

Statistics Working Paper N. 53 - 2013/4 - In 2011, the OECD and Eurostat launched a joint Expert Group to carry out a study on the feasibility of compiling measures of the distribution of income, consumption and wealth across household groups that are consistent with national accounts definitions and totals. As part of the Expert Group, national experts from 16 countries performed experimental calculations...

A cross-country comparison of household income, consumption and wealth between micro sources and national accounts aggregates

Statistics Working Paper N. 52 - 2013/3 - In 2011, the OECD and Eurostat launched a joint Expert Group to carry out a study on the feasibility of compiling measures of the distribution of income, consumption and wealth across household groups that are consistent with national accounts definitions and totals. The first challenge of the Expert Group was to draw a detailed picture of the extent...

National Accounts of OECD Countries - Financial Accounts and Financial Balance Sheets

The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Accounts includes financial transactions and The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Balance Sheets includes financial stocks.

Quarterly National Accounts - Contributions to GDP growth - Third quarter 2012, OECD

Real GDP growth in the OECD area increased by 0.3% in the third quarter of 2012, compared with 0.2% in the second quarter.

Measuring the evolution of Korea's material living standards, 1980-2010

Statistics Working Paper N. 45- 2012/2 - This Statistics Working Paper, based on a production-theoretic framework, measures the effects of real output prices, primary inputs, multi-factor productivity growth, and depreciation on Korea’s real net income growth over the past 30 years. The empirical analysis is based on a new dataset for Korea with detailed information on labour and capital inputs, including series on land and