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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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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5 minute readMore timely statistics and data allow us to respond swiftly to new developments. More granular data means that we can be more targeted in our policy advice and better account for disparities across gender, regions, industries, firm size or demographics. But statistics and data must be trustworthy and of good quality. In short, they must be fit for purpose.
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6 minute readLate into a recent evening in January, the city of Paris, together with 30 neighbouring municipalities, mobilised around two thousand volunteers to take stock of the excluded and uncounted, people without shelter, as part of its sixth annual street count; la Nuit de la Solidarité.
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4 minute readWhat do statisticians and other assorted analysts do at their holiday parties? Drink too much and embarrass themselves? Of course not, they guesstimate the number of chocolates in a glass jar (and embarrass themselves).
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7 minute readThe OECD Survey on Trust in Public Institutions (Trust Survey) is a nationally representative survey conducted across 22 OECD countries devoted to measuring citizens’ trust in public institutions and its determinants.
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