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The Trade Indicators Project (TIP)

New DevelopmentsNew Developments 

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Achievements during the past 12 months:

• Methodological framework for the current

indicators elaborated

• Multidimensional OECD Trade Indicators

database(s) installed:

– MacroMacro Trade Indicators (aggregated level)

– MicroMicro Trade Indicators (detailed level)

• General public access via OECD.STAT

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Achievements during the past 12 months:

• The Macro Trade IndicatorsMacro Trade Indicators are available both at current and constant prices, the Micro Trade Micro Trade IndicatorsIndicators at current prices only

• Some key macro indicators have been included in the ‚Economic Globalisation‘ chapter of the OECD OECD Factbook 2006Factbook 2006, and several indicators were included in the ‚Aspects of trade globalisation‘ chapter of the OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators (EGI) publication

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Achievements during the past 12 months:

• Pivot Chart/TablePivot Chart/Table for Macro Trade Indicators available onlineavailable online

• Macro Trade Indicators: Country profilesCountry profiles for all 30 OECD member countries available onlineavailable online

• OECD Portal of International Trade Statistics & BOP Statistics expanded by the „OECD International Trade Indicators“ chapter

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How does this look like at present?

• Accessing the Trade Indicators via Internet (and OECD.STAT):

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How does this look like at present?

• Micro Trade Indicators: 14 data cubes

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Revealed comparative advantage (by SITC) SITC0: Food and live animals

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Iceland New Zealand Australia Denmark Netherlands

Iceland

Netherlands

New Zealand

Australia

Denmark

Source: OECD.STAT, Micro Trade Indicators, 07-2006.

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How does this look like at present?

Revealed comparative advantage (by SITC):SITC75: Office machines & automatic data processing equipement

0

1

2

3

4

5

1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001

Ireland Netherlands Korea, Republic of Mexico Hungary Czech Republic United States United Kingdom Japan

Ireland

Netherlands

Hungary

KoreaJapan

United States

United Kingdom

Czech RepublicMexico

Source: OECD.STAT, Micro Trade Indicators, 07-2006.

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Revealed comparative advantage (by SITC) SITC76: Telecommunications & sound recording apparatus

-1

0

1

2

3

4

5

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Hungary Finland Korea, Republic of Mexico Sweden Japan

Finland

Hungary

Korea

Mexico

Sweden

Japan

Source: OECD.STAT, Micro Trade Indicators, 07-2006.

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OECD market shares (in %, by SITC): SITC78: Road vehicles (including air-cushion vehicles)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003

Germany Japan United States France Canada Spain

Japan

Germany

United States

Canada

Mexico

Poland

Source: OECD.STAT, Micro Trade Indicators, 07-2006.

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OECD market shares (in %, by SITC) SITC85: Footwear

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003

Italy Spain Germany Belgium Portugal France

Italy

Germany

Spain

FranceBelgiumPortugal

Source: OECD.STAT, Micro Trade Indicators, 07-2006.

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OECD export performance (by SITC) SITC74: General industrial machinery & equipment and parts

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

1.4

1.6

1.8

2

2.2

2.4

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Hungary Czech Republic Slovak Republic Poland Germany

Source: OECD.STAT, Micro Trade Indicators, 07-2006.

Poland Slovak Republic

Hungary

Czech Republic

Germany

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External Access to TIP (OECD.STAT)2006

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External Access to TIP (OECD.STAT)OECD.STAT dataset 2006 Rank 2006 Rank

Country statistical profile 2006 175582 1

Country statistical profiles 2005 152214 2

1--Gross domestic product 37325 3

Reference Series 28899 4

Educational Personnel 23610 5

Expenditure by funding source and transaction type 20732 6

Students enrolled by type of institution 13408 7

Price indices (MEI) 12797 8      Trade Indicators (TIP) 12084 9

Graduates by field of education 12173 9

Foreign Students Enrolled 11999 10

Main Economic Indicators: Archive data and revisions 11794 11

Financial indicators MEI 11763 12

Students enrolled by age 9858 13

Insurance Indicators 9830 14

Macro trade indicators 8878 15

Graduates by age 8029 16

Expenditure by nature and resource category 7670 17

Students aligned to Finance and personnel data 1504 76

Income Statement and Balance Sheet 1484 77

5_Official_Commitments_Disbursements_by__Sector 1464 78

Business Demography Indicators 1363 79

Micro trade indicators (by category of industry, ISIC) 1227 80

ALFS Summary tables 1197 81

Main Economic Indicators 1175 82

INDICE: Volume, average value and price index - OECD base year 1096 83

Micro trade indicators (by category of goods, SITC) 1074 84

Employment by activities and status (ALFS) 1066 85

Population and Labour Force 1015 86

OECD.Stat Hourly Usage Stats 910 91

Micro trade indicators (by category of goods, HS) 905 92

Pensions 880 93

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Directions for further research

• Further the automatisationautomatisation of the calculation/compilation process of the indicators allowing more regular and consistent updates of all indicators. Dynamic links and automatic update procedures have been tested but need to be integrated in the new working environment. The ultimate goal would be that indicators are automatically recalculated and/or updated when basic data changes. This process would, nevertheless, need a validation routine to avoid accidental release.

• Development of advanced visualisation options advanced visualisation options (e.g. dynamic time axis on which the progress and changing size of country indicators are visualised through time, thus integrating the temporal dynamics) .

• Still more Trade in Services data is needed containing cross tabulations by products and partner countries (enabling more micro trade indicators for servicesmore micro trade indicators for services)

• As TIP has been originally designed as set of indicators including “trade plus”“trade plus” indicators, it is still envisaged to add more indicators capable to shed light on globalisation patterns. Aspects such as production, employment, FDI/FATS, intra-firm trade and the role of multinationals need to be integrated into the TIP. A 2nd Roundtable Meeting on Trade Indicators in 2007 is proposed to provide steerage for this process.

• Linkage exercises of customs sources with enterprise structural statistics, as discussed at the 1st Steering Group Meeting in Ottawa in more detail, will hopefully allow building up Trade Indicators on enterprise-characteristics-levelTrade Indicators on enterprise-characteristics-level. The aim would be to have an OECD-wide set of indicators, comparable to and consistent with EU statistics