The OECD and its Statistics

1. The OECD and its Statistics Remarks to the Committee for the Co-ordination of Statistical Activities Martine Durand Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Directorate Paris, 29 September 2016

2. Our Organisation Commenced operations in 1961 35 member countries Promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world Operates by consensus

3. Our processes

4. Our governance structure

5. The Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP) CSSP Members : DGs of NSOs Committee on Financial Markets Working Party on National Accounts Working Party on Financial Statistics Working Party on Trade in Goods and Services

6. The Statistics Directorate’s “bridge” functions Statisticians Policy-makers Provide evidence and new metrics CSSP Other OECD Policy Committees Advice, joint work, quality assurance Other IOs involved in Statistics OECD Co-operate and avoid overlap OECD Partner Countries Integrate data and build capacity

7. The three layers of the Directorate’s work Innovating: New statistical measures and tools Developing concepts and statistical standards Core statistical work

8. Core Statistical Work National Accounts Economic-Environment Accounts Productivity Prices and PPPs Trade/TiVA Business Composite leading indicators Entrepreneurship Households income and wealth and their distribution Labour/Employment Gender • Improve data quality/comparability • Reduce countries’ reporting burden • Improve country coverage • Key statistical products • Data-sharing with other international organisations • Quality Reviews of all OECD datasets

9. Developing concepts and standards (I) • Updating methods and concepts for established statistics • SNA 2008 • System of Environmental-Economic Accounts • International Programme on Purchasing Power Parities • Extended Supply-Use Tables • House and property prices • Labour Statistics • Developing Statistical Guidelines

10. Concepts and standards (II): the OECD Council Recommendation on Good Statistical Practice First OECD legal instrument on statistics; adopted in November 2015 Contains 12 specific recommendations to ensure sound, ethical and forward-looking statistical systems and products Country assessments and report to Council on implementation by end-2018 Also for use in Accession Reviews, and in assistance to non-members

11. Innovating I: New statistical measures • Trust • Job Quality • SMEs and GVCs • GDP in a digitalisedeconomy • New concepts and measures for policy-making • Well-being • Health Inequalities • Green Growth • TiVA

12. Innovating II: New methods and tools • Big/Smart Data for OECD statistics • Nowcasting(e.g. income distribution; TiVA; subjective well-being) • Web-scraping (e.g. regional house prices) • Geospatial data (e.g. air pollution) • Innovative dissemination tools

13. Global relations • Work with Key Partners to include their data in OECD databases and policy analysis; help them meet international statistical standards • Work with other non-Members together with other Directorates and partnerships, e.g. on: • Multi-dimensional country reviews (DEV) • Gender for development (DEV) • Statistical capacity building (PARIS21) • Country and regional programmes (GRS) • Work with regional partners to extend data on Trade in Value Added (TiVA) to ‘rest of the world’

14. OECD statistics and the SDGs (I) 28 April 2015: SG Gurría says: “The SDGs promise to change the way we look at the world. OECD expertise…from statistics to governance…seems particularly useful…Measuring progress is, after all, part of the OECD's raison d'être.”

15. OECD statistics and the SDGs (II) In July we produced a first pilot assessment of OECD countries’ “distance to travel” to reach the 2030 targets. Our SDG follow-up also includes: • issue partner in the UN High Level Group • contributing to the global indicator framework • helping UNECE develop a regional SDG Road Map • membership of the Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data • and many other actions

16. Thank you!