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15-Jan-21 OECD ILIBRARY USER PRESENTATION 15-Jan-21 1 About OECD Established in 1961 Number of member countries: 36 Headquarters in Paris, France Official languages: English and French 15-Jan-21 2 2 1 OECD Members and Partner Countries No.

of members: 36 countries No.
of members: 36 countries Key Partners: Key Partners: Brazil Brazil China China India India Indonesia Indonesia South Africa South Africa 3 About the OECD Mission: • to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world • • • provide a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems measure, analyse, compare data, and set standards to predict future trends on a wide range of things recommend policies designed to make the lives of ordinary people better 15-Jan-21 3 4 15-Jan-21 2 Core values of the OECD • OBJECTIVE : Our analyses and recommendations are independent and evidence-based.
• OPEN : We encourage debate and a shared understanding of critical global issues.

• • • BOLD : We dare to challenge conventional wisdom starting with our own.

PIONEERING : We identify and address emerging and long term challenges.
ETHICAL : Our credibility is built on trust, integrity and transparency About OECD － Structure 15-Jan-21 5 15-Jan-21 6 15-Jan-21 3 5 6 About OECD’s Data • From where they are collected; o OECD member governments o Partner Non-member governments o International organisations 15-Jan-21 7 About OECD’s Data In order to compare internationally o OECD has set international standards for data collection cooperating with other IGOs.
o Partner Governments and IGOs collect their data following those standards, and submit them to the OECD.
15-Jan-21 8 7 8 15-Jan-21 4 15-Jan-21 Current OECD hot topics • PISA: – Evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students • Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: – G20 initiated project to understand the extent of large MNCs avoiding tax and to address the issue • Sustainable Development Goals: – Alternatives to GDP as a measure of economic performance and social progress 9 Relevance of OECD to Singapore Go to website….
15-Jan-21 10 10 5 About OECD iLibrary OECD iLibrary: o Contains all the publications released since 1998. o They are classified into 17 themes; Agriculture and Food Development Economics Education Employment Energy Environment Finance and Investment Governance Industry and Services Nuclear Energy Science and Technology Social Issues/Migration/Health Taxation Trade Transport Urban, Rural and Regional Development 15-Jan-21 11 About OECD iLibrary o All reports, journals and working papers are available in PDF.
Figures and tables in the file are downloadable in Excel.

○ Interactive databases contain the data up to 1960s and 80 countries around the world.
15-Jan-21 12 11 12 15-Jan-21 6 About OECD iLibrary • Content items (November 2020): – 16 020 ebook titles – 84 380 chapters – 252 120 tables and graphs – 2 450 articles – 6 387 multilingual summaries – 6 840 working papers – 7 billion data points across 44 databases 15-Jan-21 13 13 OECD iLibrary – Top page Send your questions 14 15-Jan-21 7 OECD iLibrary – Select a theme Navigation bar Theme page：ex.

Economics Show titles by clicking on them.

15 16 15-Jan-21 8 Theme page：ex.


Economics Statistical Periodicals include the regular titles of statistics.

17 18 A periodical page: ex.

OECD Economic Outlook Link to back issues Icons to download/view the latest issue.

Icons to download/view chapters/tables/gra phs.

15-Jan-21 9 PDF file and Statlink Back data of the above figures is available from Statlink.
PDF file and Statlink 19 20 15-Jan-21 10 Cite this publication Cite this publication 21 22 15-Jan-21 11 About Copyright Browse by country 23 24 15-Jan-21 12 Ex.

Philippines Sort results 25 26 Browse by theme and country Choose theme(s) and country(es) Click on it to search.

15-Jan-21 13 Keyword search 27 28 Search results Click on it to create your favourite list.

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15-Jan-21 14 STATISTICS page Interactive statistical databases Frequent asked ready-made tables Interactive databases Extract data includes all the databases below (except for the IEA databases).

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29 30 15-Jan-21 15 15-Jan-21 Interactive databases Customise table Metadata and information of this table.

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31 Interactive databases Example.

Look for the data of waste generated by industry.


15-Jan-21 32 32 16 Data of waste generated by industry Data of waste is included in the Environment Statistics.

Data of waste generated by industry 33 34 15-Jan-21 17 Data of waste generated by industry Variable contains the list of industries.

Data of waste generated by industry 2.

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35 36 15-Jan-21 18 Data of waste generated by industry Example: Amount of waste generated by the manufacture of plastic products.

“..” in the cells means that there is no data of this year/country.

Data of waste generated by industry Change “Layout” to show all the sectors for one country.

37 38 15-Jan-21 19 15-Jan-21 Data of waste generated by industry Select a country from the pulldown menu.

15-Jan-21 39 39 Export the table in Excel, CSV etc.
40 20 15-Jan-21 Export the table in Excel 41 Metadata 15-Jan-21 42 42 21