Databases - Industry, Science and Technology

• Measuring Globalisation - The Role of Multinationals in OECD Economies
• Structural and Demographic Business Statistics
• STAN - OECD Structural Analysis Statistics
• OECD Science, Technology and R&D Statistics
• OECD Telecommunications and Internet Statistics

Structural and Demographic Business Statistics OECD Online Database

Previously titled: Structural Statistics for Industry and Services

This data set comprises three databases with data from 1995 onwards:

• Structural Statistics for Industry and Services (SSIS) ;
• Business Statistics by Size Class (BSC) ;
• Business Demography Indicators (BD) .
  

The SSIS database provides information on the following economic variables broken down by 4-digit International Standard of Industrial Classification Revision 3 (ISIC Rev. 3).

• Turnover or gross premiums written
• Production at producers' prices
• Value added at basic prices
• Value added at factor costs
• Gross operating surplus
• Total purchases of goods and services
• Change in stocks of goods and services
• Purchases of energy products
• Gross investment in tangible goods
• Gross investment in land
• Gross investment in existing buildings and structures
• Gross investment in machinery and equipment
• Sales of tangible investment goods
• Net investment in tangible goods
• Employment, number of persons engaged
• Employment, number of employees
• Employment, number of females employees
• Employment, number of employees in full time equivalent units
• Hours worked by employees
• Compensation of labour, all persons engaged
• Compensation of labour, employees
• Wages and salaries, all persons engaged
• Wages and salaries, employees
• Other employers' social contributions, employees
• Number of enterprises
• Number of establishments
  

The data for the SSIS database have four dimensions: Country, Year, Industry and Variable. An additional dimension Total is shown, which contains one-field only, namely the data and must be selected.

The BSC database provides the same industry level of information as the SSIS database but this is additionally broken down by size classes of businesses. In theory the two datasets are consistent and complementary. In practice however the datasets are considered separately because: the time series for SSIS data are typically longer; the coverage of variables in the SSIS database is more comprehensive than the BSC database; and, for some countries, the two datasets are not entirely consistent, reflecting partly different information sources and allocation methods and partly the different times when the datasets were compiled.

The data for the BSC database have five dimensions: Country, Year, Industry, Size Class and Variable.

The third dataset within the SDBS database contains information of business birth, death and survival rates for many OECD countries and is referred to as the Business Demography ( BD )database. This dataset is at its early stages of development and has not been compiled using the conventional system of
questionnaires, such as those used in collecting SSIS and BSC information, and, so, considerable incomparability problems currently exist in this dataset. The dataset has however been included in the SDBS dataset at this early stage a) because there is considerable policy interest in this type of information and b) because it signals the intention of the OECD Statistics Directorate to collect
information in this important policy area using more conventional methods with harmonised definitions for variables.

Data for four variables are currently available in the BD database – business births (often referred to as business entries); business deaths (often referred to as business exits), 2-year business survival rates and 5-year business survival rates.

The data for the BD database have four dimensions: Country, Year, Industry and Variable.

STAN - OECD Structural Analysis Statistics Online Database

This database contains four related sets of data:

STAN Industry

includes annual measures of output, labour input, investment and international trade from 1970 onward for OECD countries. Compatible with other OECD data bases, STAN is based on the International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities, Revision 3 (ISIC Rev.3) and covers all activities (including services).

List of variables covered:

• Production (Gross Output) at current prices
• Production (Gross Output) volumes (quantity index)
• Value Added at current prices
• Value Added volumes (quantity index)
• Labour Costs (Compensation of employees)
• Wages and Salaries
• Number Engaged (Total Employment)
• Number of Employees
• Number Engaged - full-time equivalent jobs
• Employees - full-time equivalent jobs
• Hours Worked
• Gross Fixed Capital Formation at current prices
• Gross Fixed Capital Formation, volumes (quantity index)
• Gross Capital Stock, volumes
• Net Capital Stock, volumes
• Exports of goods at current prices
• Imports of goods at current prices
• Current price Value Added at basic prices (or factor costs)
• Current price Value Added at producer's prices (or market prices)
• Consumption of Fixed Capital
• Net Operating Surplus

presents industrial research and development (R&D) expenditure data in ISIC Revision 3 for 19 OECD countries, as well as a zone total for the EU. The coverage has been extended to 58 sectors, particularly service sectors, covering 1973-1998 in ISIC Rev. 2 and 1987-2001 in ISIC Rev. 3.

monitors industrial structure and performance for OECD countries and various country groups via 28 measures related to international trade, industrial composition, business enterprise R&D, employment and productivity. Series from 1980-2001 cover the manufacturing and services sectors as well as additional industry groups based on technology intensity. This edition was compiled from the STAN Industry and STAN R&D data sets as of May 2003 to provide input for the OECD's Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard: 2003 edition (available on the CD-ROM in PDF format).

List of measures:

1. Intra-industry trade (IIT)
2. Contribution to manufacturing trade balance (CMTB)
3. Export / Import ratio (XM)
4. Export shares relative to OECD23 (XMSO23)
5. Import propensity relative to OECD23 & the total economy (MSPEC23)
6. Import propensity relative to OECD23 & total manufacturing (MSPEC23M)
7. Export specialisation relative to OECD23 & the total economy (XSPEC23)
8. Export specialisation relative to OECD23 & total manufacturing (XSPEC23M)
9. Composition of total exports of goods (XSH)
10. Composition of manufacturing exports of goods (XSHMAN)
11. Composition of total imports of goods (MSH)
12. Composition of manufacturing imports of goods (MSHMAN)
13. Export share of production (XPROD)
14. Import penetration (MPEN)
15. Value added shares relative to the total economy (VASH)
16. Value added shares relative to total manufacturing (VASHMAN)
17. Value added shares of manufacturing industries relative to OECD15 (VASHOM)
18. Distribution of R&D expenditures across industries for the total economy (RDS)
19. Distribution of R&D expenditures across industries for total manufacturing (RDSMAN)
20. R&D expenditures shares across OECD12 (RDSO12)
21. R&D intensity using value added (RDIV)
22. R&D intensity using production (RDIP)
23. Employment shares in the total economy (EMPSH)
24. Employment shares in total manufacturing (EMPSHM)
25. Labour compensation per employee for the total economy (LABEMP)
26. Labour compensation per employee for total manufacturing (LABEMPM)
27. Labour share of value added (LABVAL)
28. Labour productivity (LPDTY)
    

shows detailed trade flows by manufacturing industry from one country (or geographical area) to another. For each declaring country, exports of goods to and imports of goods from corresponding partner countries are supplied for the years 1988-2001. The data have been converted from the OECD's product-based International Trade by Commodities Statistics (ITCS) using a standard conversion key and are presented in thousands of US dollars at current prices.

The STAN Industry, R&D and Indicators data sets are presented in a query-based tool, Beyond 2020 for Windows, which allows users to extract and export data, prepare customised graphs and tables and perform simple analyses. All data sets are available as sets of Excel tables, and the complete STAN industry data set is also available in a single ASCII file for simplified loading into local analytical and statistical database systems.

Visit the STAN web site for more information.

OECD Science, Technology and R&D Statistics Online Database

Formerly Main Science and Technology Indicators PLUS Research and Development Statistics

The SourceOECD Science and Technology Database Set comprises two databases:

Basic Science and Technology Statistics , covering resources devoted to research and development (R&D) and indicators of the results of science and technology (S&T) activities, such as patents and technology balance of payments;

and

Main Science and Technology Indicators a timely selection of the most frequently used indicators on the scientific and technological performance of the OECD Member countries: resources devoted to R&D, measures of output and the impact on S&T activities (patents, technology balance of payments, trade in high-technology industries)..

Visit the web site for more information on Measuring Science and Technology.

OECD Telecommunications and Internet Statistics Online Database

The OECD Telecommunications Database is a unique source of key indicators on the communications sector in 29 OECD Member countries.

It provides over 100 time series of data of indicators on telecommunications such as network infrastructure, revenues, expenses and investment of operators, trade in telecommunications equipment, as well as various economic indicators, such as GDP and national employment.

The OECD Telecommunications Database covers the years 1980 onwards, where available.

Extensive meta data on country sources and definitions, and expressed values are available online from within the program.

Also, visit the OECD Information and Communications Technologies Statistics web site for more information.