The OECD MEI database is available in "Full" and "Seven Country" versions. The Full version includes data on more than 30 countries, including Western Europe, the U.S., Canada, Japan, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Russia, and the former Soviet republics. The seven country version includes only the "group of seven" countries: U.S., Canada, Japan, U.K., France, Germany, and Italy.
The data for most countries include GDP and its major components, producer and consumer price indexes, money stock and related measures, major interest rates, industrial production indexes, unemployment rates, exchange rate vs. the dollar, and the general stock market index. For larger countries, you will also find data on orders, shipments, and inventory stocks, plus greater disaggregation on the price and industrial production indexes. Many of the monthly series are available in both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted forms.
To see a list of the series included in the database (as of May 2006) in Adobe PDF format, just click on OECD Series List.
You can purchase a single copy of the OECD database, or you can purchase quarterly or monthly subscriptions. The subscriptions provide you with updated copies of the database on a monthly or quarterly basis for one year.
The OECD data are supplied on CD in our convenient RATS data file format, with one data file for each country. The "Full" version of the database also includes a large RATS file containing all the data, plus a file containing various aggregate measures.
You can use the data directly with our RATS software, or use the included RATSDATA utility program to view, print, or graph data, or export data into other formats, including text files or Excel spreadsheets.
The data is available for both Windows and Macintosh systems (call for availability for UNIX systems). Please contact Estima if you would like to receive listings of the series included in the various databases. The Full database requires about 40Mb of disk space, while the G7 version requires about 4Mb of space.