OECD Main Economic Indicators at ESDS International

Title: OECD Main Economic Indicators, 1972 - (OECD MEI)

Access data: http://esds80.mcc.ac.uk/wds_oecd/ (See Access Conditions below)

Citation: The bibliographic citation for the database is: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (<YYYY>): Main Economic Indicators (<Ed. YYYY-MM>). ESDS International, University of Manchester. DOI: <edition specific doi - e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/oecd/mei/2011-04 >. (See list of edition specific Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

Alternative link: 10.1787/mei-data-en (to access via OECD iLibrary)

Edition: You will be able to access the most recent edition of the OECD MEI at ESDS International. If you wish to access a previous edition of the data, please contact the ESDS International team directly at international@esds.ac.uk.

Creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Publisher: ESDS International

Abstract: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produces annual, quarterly and monthly data for around 3,800 main economic indicators (MEI). The variables cover national accounts, industrial production, employment, prices, business trends and trade for the member countries of the OECD and 6 non-member countries. The dataset also includes the OECD's leading indicators (key variables that signal changes in the business cycle).

The OECD defines each variable separately for each country. Nevertheless, the data are considered sufficiently similar to enable comparisons between countries, especially for relative values and rates of change.

Dataset user guide: www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/user_guides/oecd/mei.asp

Access Conditions:

To access the ESDS International macro-economic datasets you must be a user from a UK higher or further education institution. We cannot provide data to users outside of this community due to the data re-distribution license agreements we have with our data providers. If you are a member of a UK higher or further education institution access to the macro-economic datasets is provided free of charge.

Access to data requires ESDS registration and uses the federated access management authentication system. Registration is a simple online process - go to the How to Register web page at (www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/access.asp) to begin the process.

Once you have registered with ESDS and attempt to access one of the macro-economic datasets, you will automatically be prompted to agree to additional dataset specific conditions if they apply.

Date of Release: First edition - 7th November 2003, latest edition - see record of database updates

Copyright: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contact: Help desk: international@esds.ac.uk