3 minute readThe digital revolution has transformed daily life, offering benefits like improved healthcare and remote work while introducing challenges such as excessive screen time, cyberbullying, and data privacy concerns. The OECD and Cisco have launched the Digital Well-being Hub to explore how technology affects well-being, bridging gaps in understanding beyond traditional statistics. With 40% of internet users lacking basic digital skills in OECD countries, the Hub aims to gather personal stories and data to inform policies that foster safer, more inclusive digital environments. Participate in the poll to share your experience and help shape a healthier digital future.
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6 minute readThe business sector contributes 63% to GDP in the OECD and is a key driver of economic development, trade, innovation, and job creation. It is also a key source of emissions. OECD’s business statistics are therefore an important tool for monitoring economic growth and the transition to climate neutrality. In addition, to reduce their carbon footprint, firms must innovate with cleantech and digital solutions. This means radical changes in how they produce, invest and trade, as well as a greater need to monitor these changes. The digitalisation that occurs during these processes presents opportunities for new high-quality data to complement traditional business statistics, with the additional benefit of mitigating the survey fatigue experienced by firms in OECD countries. This blog deals with statistical issues that are particularly relevant to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), but many of them also apply to business statistics in a broader sense.
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7 minute readData collection, processing and analysis skills are in high demand in today’s labour markets and are increasingly found in non-digital industries. This article applies natural language processing to online job advertisements to better understand digital skills in the UK, Canada and the US. Results show that data analytics skills contribute most to the aggregate data-related labour demand in all three countries. The information and communication and finance industries are the most data-intensive in all three countries, while larger differences in labour demand persist across countries for agriculture, mining and quarrying, and electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply.
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4 minute readDigitalisation – the use of digital technologies and data – has radically altered our economies. Whether it’s the way people consume goods and services, the tools and inputs that producers use in production, or the ability for producers to interact with consumers, digitalisation is fundamental to the modern economy. But policy makers have expressed concerns that the digital transformation remains largely hidden in the national accounts and macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
To address these issues, the OECD’s Informal Advisory Group on Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy has produced the OECD Handbook on Compiling Digital Supply and Use Tables (SUTs). The new handbook proposes a measurement framework for compiling Digital SUTs to provide information on the output and value added of digital industries, amounts of digital goods and services purchased, and the extent to which digital ordering and delivery is taking place.
This is the first in a series of three blog articles, where we will introduce this measurement framework.
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4 minute readRecent years have brought with them an extraordinary shift in the urban landscape. As people seek new opportunities and a better quality of life, the population living in cities has more than doubled over the past 40 years, from 1.5 billion in 1975 to 3.5 billion in 2015. To accommodate population growth, cities tend to either expand or densify, which can have both economic and environmental impacts by increasing mobility demand, CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and cost of services.
Understanding how a city expands and comparing this with population trends is essential for sustainable urbanisation. Therefore, a timely monitoring of land management is crucial. In a recent OECD study, we leveraged an innovative approach based on publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to monitor land use in OECD metropolitan areas in near-real time.
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4 minute readIt’s easy to imagine tax administrations as big administrative beasts, slow to adapt to the challenges of an increasingly digital world, like cumbersome ocean liners requiring space and time to adjust their heading.
But the reality for a modern tax administration is very different. We saw this front and centre during the COVID-19 pandemic, with tax administrations delivering rapid and complex citizen support policies on an unprecedented scale. Less visible is the pace of digitalisation in tax administrations, which has only accelerated following the pandemic. We are seeing fundamental changes, integrating digital more and more into their core operating models and implementing world-leading practices. The results are lasting benefits for tax administrations and, ultimately, taxpayers.
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6 minute readAnalysing patterns in international trade in services can be a challenging task. Not all countries publish information on trade relations with their partners, and often what a country reports does not match what its trading partners say. The OECD-WTO Balanced Trade in Services (BaTIS) dataset addresses both these problems.
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6 minute readEn outre, plus les données sont détaillées, plus l’on peut adapter le conseil politique et tenir compte des inégalités entre les sexes, les régions, les secteurs, les tailles des entreprises ou les caractéristiques démographiques. Mais les statistiques et les données…
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