The OECD STAN Database for industrial analysis

Nowcasting the growth rate of the ICT sector

“…Other efforts to measure economic activity in real time include nowcasting GDP growth in Brazil (Bantis et al, 2023[5]), the United States (Bantis et al, 2023[5]); (Kohns, David and Bhattacharjee, 2023[6]), Finland (Heikkinen and Joni, 2019 [7]) and Germany (Götz and Knetsch, 2019[8]). In the case of Germany, Götz and Knetsch (2019 [8]) use Google Trends data as the input of a bridge equation model to nowcast aggregate GDP, various GDP components, as well as monthly activity indicators.…”

A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality

“…1. The estimates in Figure 4.1 are based on data from OECD's STAN database (Horvát and Webb 2020). They were created by taking the total number of individuals employed in service (industry 'D45T99') divided by the total number of individuals in employment (EMPN in STAN), by country and year.…”

Distant but Close in Sight: Firm‐level Evidence on French–German Productivity Gaps in Manufacturing

“…After studying in depth productivity level distributions, we also study some of the drivers underlying their shifts. We focus in particular on location shifts, and for this purpose we perform several decomposition exercises of the aggregate productivity growth rate that allow us to evaluate how productivity growth across Source: STAN and ANBERD OECD Data, edition 2020 (Horvàt and Webb, 2020) the Great Recession has been impacted by factors like structural change and allocative efficiency. In addition, we evaluate the contributions to overall growth by firms with different sizes and export intensities.…”

“…Note: Authors' own calculations. Source: STAN and ANBERD OECD Data, edition 2020(Horvàt and Webb, 2020)…”