Economic Forecasts in the Age of Big Data

The data showed that the Bromine Number of gasoline is about 2.4 times the olefin content.

Weakness in the job market takes a huge toll on economic and personal well being.

However, collection of gender disaggregated data remains a weak point in many areas.

To be sure, the economic data have softened.

For example, OECD has a history of expressing trade data in terms of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Statistics Division introduces trade data in terms of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC).

E. Harmonization of data collection activities with environmental economic accounting concepts and definitions

Under an initiative by the coordinator of the group of least developed countries, a first questionnaire on the NAPA preparation process was circulated at the twentieth sessions of the subsidiary bodies among representatives of the LDCs.

MILAN The debate about improving economic governance within the eurozone is shedding new light on the system s weaknesses.

Source Federal Institute for statistics, Statistical data on economic and other trends, several editions

The weak economic performance of landlocked developing countries reflects the direct and indirect impact of geographical factors on key macroeconomic variables.

(e) Work towards the harmonization of data collection activities of environment and related statistics with concepts and definitions of environmental economic accounting, including the assurance of data quality.

These include the poor socio economic infrastructure and isolation from world markets owing to its being a landlocked least developed country.

Moreover, experimental data suggest that, contrary to mainstream economic theory, people s preferences are changeable.

In joint research with Nicolas Coeurdacier and Stéphane Guibaud, we show that economic data supports this view.

(a) Firstly, it compiles a wide range of economic, social and environmental data and information and analyses them with a view to identifying trends and taking stock of policy options

So, while the economic numbers may look bad, the country s political leadership looks great.

Stated otherwise, national accounts as systems may be distinguished from the economic data associated with those systems.

Vulnerability

The most obvious fact in the data is the great disparity in the economic positions of castes sharing the same ritual rank.

In February 2004, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs launched the Partnerships for Sustainable Development database.

First, the economic damage from Japan s three calamities (a horrifying earthquake, a devastating tsunami, and a nuclear crisis) may well be double that of Kobe.

In the northern Mediterranean, many databases are available in farming resources, land use and socio economic conditions.

The improved maintenance of business registers and increased use of administrative data go a long way in reducing the response burden, improving the response rate of economic enquiries and minimizing the resources required for data collection.

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Weak community participation.

Coordination is weak

The subregional offices were concerned by weaknesses in coordination and by the insufficient correlation between the services of regional advisers and their own needs and those of regional economic communities.

And, indeed, recent data point to a rapidly worsening economic environment in Germany, where the trade surplus has shrunk dramatically in recent months.

Recent economic data in China, India, Brazil, and Turkey point to the weakest growth performance in these countries in years.

Therefore, it is recommended that international agencies formulate and implement a coordinated work programme on data dissemination with the objective of creating a single portal for economic statistics, including industrial statistics, that provides access to unified international databases.

The Statistical Commission, recognizing the economic importance of distributive trade, acknowledging that the availability and quality of national data on distributive trade needs improvement and expressing concern regarding the international comparability of such data, may wish

(b) To advise the Statistics Division that the draft revised recommendations reflect new developments in commercial practices, new data sources and data compilation arrangements, as well as recent and ongoing revisions in other areas of economic statistics, such as national accounts, classifications and industrial statistics

And I put them together, so that in each pair of country, one has twice the child mortality of the other. And this means that it's much bigger a difference than the uncertainty of the data.

In FBiH in 2001, only one case of maternal death, which is an indicator of the poor quality of mortality statistics data and certainly not a reflection of the actual conditions.

Recalling that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a least developed country with severe economic and social problems arising from its weak economic infrastructure and aggravated by the ongoing conflict,

Recalling that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a least developed country with severe economic and social problems arising from its weak economic infrastructure and aggravated by the ongoing conflict,

OIOS noted with concern the low priority given to subregional offices in the distribution of ECA extrabudgetary resources.

The largest repository is the Inter university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, which provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable political and social data for the United States and the world.

The data portal provides access to a broad collection of harmonized environmental and socio economic data sets from authoritative sources at the global, regional, subregional and national levels and allows basic data analysis and the creation of maps and graphics.

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