OECD Statistics

The OECD has released its October Statistics Newsletter, here is what is available in the issue:

1. The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Statistics

2. Remittances sent by recent immigrants in Canada

The study that this article is based on offers a broad cross-national perspective of remittance senders, focusing on individuals who became landed immigrants in Canada in 2000 and 2001.

3. Update of the 1993 System of National Accounts

Some of the major changes are:
• New recording of pension schemes
• Explicit recognition of capital services
• Recognition of the outcomes of Research and Experimental Development (R&D) as fixed assets
• Recognition of offensive weapons and their means of delivery as fixed assets
• Goods for processing to be recorded on a change of ownership basis

4. UNCTAD launches Global Databank on World Trade in Creative Products

An UNCTAD database providing trade statistics on creative goods and services is available to the public as of today at the Creative Economy site The statistics cover about 235 products related to heritage, arts, media and functional creations.

5. New OECD Dataset on Patents by Regions

The data have been “regionalised” at a very detailed level so that more than 5000 regions
are covered across most OECD countries plus China and India.
REGPAT allows patent data to be used in connection with other regional data such as GDP or labour force statistics, and other patentbased information such as citations, technical fields and patent holder’s characteristics.

6. Release of OECD Health Data 2008 plus Working long-hours in New Zealand

The 2008 edition provides new data on a number of important topics, including:
• the number of foreign-trained doctors in OECD countries;
• more detailed information on nurses, usually the most numerous health care providers in OECD countries;
• the incidence of a number of vaccine-preventable diseases (such as measles, pertussis and
Hepatitis B), complementing existing series on childhood vaccination rates for these diseases which are part of the health care quality indicators (HCQI) data set; and
• the number of elderly people receiving long-term care at home or in institutions.