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OECD Consumer Prices - Updated: 9 January 2009

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09-Jan-2009

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 2.3% in the year to November, compared with 3.7% in the year to October 2008. Month-on-month, prices fell 0.9% in November, after declining 0.3% in October.

Consumer Price Indices (CPI) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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09-Jan-2009

Updated continuously - Data is available in index and in percentage change on the same period of the previous year. Consumer Prices Indices (CPI) are a general measure of inflation. CPI "all items non-food ...

Measuring entrepreneurship: a digest of indicators

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08-Jan-2009

This report presents the results of the first round of empirical data collected under the  Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP).

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: December 2008

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08-Dec-2008

The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.2% in October 2008, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.6 percentage point higher than a year earlier.

Standardised Unemployment Rates for OECD countries

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08-Dec-2008

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - The OECD standardised unemployment rates (seasonally adjusted) give the numbers of unemployed persons as a percentage of the civilian labour force...

OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) - Updated: December 2008

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05-Dec-2008

OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) for October 2008 continue to point to a weakening outlook for all the major seven economies but compared to last month the outlook has significantly deteriorated ...

Latest Key Short-Term Indicators for OECD Countries

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05-Dec-2008

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)  . Updated monthly according to the MEI publication timetable. Includes the latest data on Gross domestic product, Leading indicators, Consumer price indices, Current balance, Unemployment rates and Interest rate

OECD Key Economic Indicators (KEI) Database

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05-Dec-2008

Provides access to long time series of growth rates for a number of Key Economic Indicators (GDP, production, cyclical indicators, standardised unemployment rates, prices, financial indicators, trade...) collected within the Main Economic Indicators database.

Standardised Confidence Indicators for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Dec-2008

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated monthly according to MEI timetable ). The OECD Standardised Confidence Indicators (for manufacturing industry and consumers) are confidence indicators...

OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Dec-2008

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Composite leading indicators (CLIs) are presented in two different forms. They are the trend restored CLIs and the annualised 6-month rate of changes of CLIs.

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Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies

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Measuring the Progress of Societies

How does the well-being of societies evolve? Sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators are needed to provide a comprehensive picture. Visit the website to find out more about this project.


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