Dissemination Policy for
OECD Statistics
November, 2006
Present on-line platforms

The Statistics Portal www.oecd.org/statistics
– Freely available
– Limited datasets (“10%”)
– Mixed formats

SourceOECD
– Subscription service
– Analytical publications and Beyond 20/20 databases

OLIS
– Extranet for government officials
– Free access to statistics data warehouse OECD.Stat
– Free access to all publications
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Some trends
Revenues €4.5 million / year
 Printed statistical publications still in
demand
 Cross-domain products: OECD Factbook,
Country Statistical Profiles
 StatLink: URL to Excel tables
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Access to OECD.Stat
Data warehouse covering all statistics:
 contains national accounts, education,
health, .....
 Is free for partners of OECD via OLIS
 NBS are partners and can access freely
 January-October 950,000 downloads

– of which 900,000 Internet use
Data and metadata can be combined
 Horizontal products

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Three new services

OECD Statistics
– horizontal access to all databases and vertical
access within each database
– targeted at users who have skill and time

OECD Core Data
– key ready-made tables and sub-sets
– 500-1000 tables and sub-sets
– targeted at expert users and informed lay users

OECD Figures & Facts
– simple tables with commentary.
– targeted at journalists, managers, officials and
others new to international statistics
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Most accessed 2006
External
Dataset
Internal
Internet
OLIS
42645
2113
1908
2--Disposable income and net lending - net borrowing
5340
227
93
3--Population and employment by main activity
3897
255
174
4--PPPs and exchange rates
3992
228
157
11--Government expenditure by function
1351
507
386
12--Main aggregates of general government
1465
241
436
610--Financial accounts - consolidated
410
115
308
710--Financial balance sheets - consolidated
453
342
291
720--Financial balance sheets - non consolidated
171
215
408
Central Government Debt
3222
272
2339
Quarterly National Accounts
4315
1655
869
67360
8158
9025
1--Gross domestic product
All National accounts
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Access to metadata

together with data in OECD.Stat
– attachment levels

independently and freely on www
– MetaStore
– easy to find from Google
– deep descriptions
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Tour
Europe
The End
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