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Thursday, May 25, 2006

EU KLEMS page

EU KLEMS Project studies Productivity in the European Union. Muich attention paid to services.
"This project aims to create a database on measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all European Union member states from 1970 onwards. This work will provide an important input to policy evaluation, in particular for the assessment of the goals concerning competitiveness and economic growth potential as established by the Lisbon and Barcelona summit goals. The database should facilitate the sustainable production of high quality statistics using the methodologies of national accounts and input-output analysis. The input measures will include various categories of capital, labour, energy, material and service inputs. Productivity measures will be developed, in particular with growth accounting techniques. Several measures on knowledge creation will also be constructed. Substantial methodological and data research on these measures will be carried out to improve international comparability. There will be ample attention for the development of a flexible database structure, and for the progressive implementation of the database in official statistics over the course of the project. The database will be used for analytical and policy-related purposes, in particular by studying the relationship between skill formation, technological progress and innovation on the one hand, and productivity, on the other. To facilitate this type of analysis a link will also be sought with existing micro (firm level) databases. The balance in academic, statistical and policy input in this project is realised by the participation of 15 organisations from across the EU, representing a mix of academic institutions and national economic policy research institutes and with the support from various statistical offices and the OECD....

The page for Workpackage 1 contains two new documents:
-Nick Oulton: The Measurement of Output and Prices In the Service Sector
-Kurt Kratena: Deflation of Supply and Use Tables"

But the data are NOT publically available, though much text to download.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

chicagocrime.org: Chicago crime database
From the BBC website:
Web mashups
In Silicon Valley, the current rage is called "web 2.0" - a reference to the web as a computing platform in its own right. As more and more companies give third parties a way to combine their web-based data and services with other companies' data and services, clever folks are mashing things together in remarkable ways. For example ... ChicagoCrime.org, which puts government-provided crime data on Google maps and lets people drill down into detail.
Now add to this the idea that everyday folks can start annotating maps and other kinds of information on their own. The possibilities seem endless..."

Saturday, May 13, 2006


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