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Calculation of Normalised Business and Consumer Confidence Indicators and Zone Aggregates. Olivier Brunet OECD Statistics Directorate. Topics. National indicators for zones Methodology Publication of results Alternative approaches for zones
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Calculation of Normalised Business and Consumer Confidence Indicators and Zone Aggregates Olivier Brunet OECD Statistics Directorate
Topics • National indicators for zones • Methodology • Publication of results • Alternative approaches for zones • Comparison with World and Euro confidence indicators • Conclusions and future work
Methodology • Periodicity 1. Quarterly data refer to the first month of the quarter 2. Quarterly data refer to second month of the quarter 3. Quarterly data refer to second month of the quarter with 3rd last month extrapolated 4. Quarterly data refer to third month of the quarter
Methodology (following) • Smoothing - MCD (Months for cyclical Dominance) - QCD (Quarter for Cyclical Dominance) • Standardisation / Normalisation Substract the mean and then divide by the mean of the absolute values of the differences from the mean.
Methodology (following) • Weighting (GDP-PPP)
Methodology (final) • Aggregation - 90 % of total weight for Major 7 countries - 60 % of total weight for other zones: . OECD total . Euro area . Big 6 Non OECD area . World proxy
Conclusions • Publication of results: • Business confidence indicators (manufacturing) (Euro Area, Major 7, OECD Total, OECD Asia Pacific, Big 6 Non EODC, World proxy) • Consumer confidence indicator (Euro Area, Major 7, OECD Total) • Methodology: • Use of the option de-trending
Future work • Calculation of country specific business confidence indicators for Non EU countries • Incorporation of consumer confidence indicator (India, Indonesia, Russia) • Extension of calculation of zone aggregates (NAFTA , Big 4 European, OECD Europe, EU15, OECD Asia, ..) • Calculate regional or zone confidence indicators for other sectors • Use of alternative weights (ex: share of imports and exports)