Leading indicators comprise the composite leading indicator (CLI) and standardised business and consumer confidence indicators. They provide qualitative information useful for monitoring the current economic situation and advance warning of turning points in economic activity.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the standard measure of the value added created through the production of goods and services in a country during a certain period. As such, it also measures the income earned from that production, or the total amount spent on final goods and services (less...

This book presents the proceedings of the 25th CIRET Conference, entitled "Business Surveys and Empirical Analysis of Economic and Social Survey Data" was hosted by OECD and INSEE in Paris, France in 2000.

This dataset includes annual and quarterly detailed data on financial assets such as investment funds shares, net equity of households in life insurance reserves and net equity of households in pension funds reserves and financial liabilities such as short-term and long-term loans as well as...

The indicators presented, (see indicators' description below), refer to inventions filed in one or more jurisdictions (family size 1 or greater) or in two or more jurisdictions (family size 2 or greater). A patent family is defined as the set of all patent applications protecting the same...

Comparative price level indices are the ratios of purchasing power parities to market exchange rates. At the level of GDP, comparative price levels provide a measure of the differences in the general price levels of countries. This indicator is measured as an index.