OECD/ESCAP Workshop on
Composite Leading Indicators and Business Tendency
Surveys
Bangkok, 24-26 February
2003
Last update: 28 February
2003
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation
and Development (OECD), and the United Nations
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (ESCAP), jointly organized
the workshop on a composite leading indicators
and business tendency surveys. The first
two days of the workshop were spent on training
in composite leading indicators and were followed
by one day on business tendency surveys.
The Workshop aimed to help countries in Asia
and the Pacific region improve the capability
to correctly analyze and interpret the survey
results for short-term monitoring and to construct
confidence indicators as well as composite leading
indicators based on both survey data and quantitative
statistics. Furthermore, participants
shared experiences on implementation of harmonized
questionnaires, or revisions to existing surveys
in line with the conclusions of the
workshop held in October
2001
Provisional Agenda
and Time Schedule
List of participants
Opening statement
Presentations
by OECD
Development of Business and
Consumer Surveys in Asia/Pacific
Harmonisation of Business Tendency
Surveys in industry
Business Tendency Surveys
(102KB)
Confidence and Composite Indicators
Confidence and Composite Indicators:
Experience with Data for Canada and Mexico
Consumer surveys
Uses of Economic Indicators
for Measuring Economic Trends
Cyclical Indicators in Asia
Review of Current Inter-Country
Comparability of Business Tendency Surveys in
Asia/Pacific Region
OECD System of Leading Indicators
(107KB)
OECD System of Leading Indicators
Practices and Tools
World-Wide Activities in Business
and Consumer Surveys
Country papers
Document
Presentation
The progress with harmonization
and presentation for Business Tendency Survey
Results in China
(120KB)
Experimental Composite Leading
Indicator for Hong Kong, China
Launching of the Quarterly
Business Tendency Survey in Hong Kong, China
Industrial Outlook Surveys
conducted by the Reserve Bank of India
Composite Leading Indicator
in Indonesia
-
Harmonization of Business Tendency
Survey in Indonesia (Progress, Current Analysis
and Survey Results)
Business Tendency Survey in
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Malaysia Economic Indicators
- Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indicators
The Harmonized Business Tendency
Survey in Malaysia Progress Statement
-
Report on Experimental Calculations
of Composite Leading Indicators, NSCB, Philippines
-
Progress report on the implementation
of the Harmonized Questionnaires in the Business
Expectations Survey in the Philippines
A Composite Index from a Small
Sample Survey, Singapore
(282KB)
(183KB)
The Conduct of Leading Indicator:
A Case of Thailand
Leading Economic Index, Bank
of Thailand
-
Business Sentiment Surveys
and Implementation of the Harmonized Questionnaire:
Bank of Thailand's experiences
