Contents

This book is in development. This beta release includes the sections below.

1. Introduction
2. Contributors
3. 1—Measuring Inflation
4. 2—Gross Domestic Product
5. 3—National Income and Expenditure
6. 4—The Supply and Use Tables Framework
7. 5—The Labour Market
8. 6—Productivity
9. 7—Measuring Economic Inequality
10. 8—Subnational Statistics
11. 9—The Balance of Payments
12. 10—National Wealth
13. 11—Natural Capital
14. 12—Hard-to-Measure Statistics
15. 13—Innovation Statistics
16. Appendices
    1. 1—Sources for economic statistics
    2. 2A—Summary statistics
    3. 2B—Growth rates and the exponential and logarithm functions
    4. 2C—Index numbers
    5. 2D—Statistical inference
    6. 2E—Correlation and regression
    7. 3—The global statistical system and economic statistics
    8. 4—Purchasing power parities: how to make comparisons of GDP across countries
    9. 5—Deflators and the national accounts
    10. 6—Measurement challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic
    11. 7—The Input-Output Tables
17. Glossary