Guide to Economic Indicators

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by The Economist


  OTS (overseas trade statistics)

  output

  boosting

  by sector

  construction

  domestic

  falling

  future

  inflation and

  and investment

  manufacturing

  measurement

  per man hour

  per person

  and the services sector

  value-added

  world

  overheating

  overnight call money rate

  overshooting

  overtime

  owner-occupation

  patents

  pay bargaining

  settlements

  payrolls

  peaks

  pension contributions

  pension funds

  pensions

  private-sector

  public-sector

  percentage changes

  percentage points

  perks

  permanent-income hypothesis

  personal disposable income (PDI)

  personal sector

  Peru

  Phillips curve

  plant

  Poland

  populations

  age structure

  economically active

  expanding

  and labour force

  portfolios

  Portugal

  PPIs (producer price indices)

  PPP (purchasing power parity)

  price indices

  commodity

  composition of

  consumer (CPIs)

  current-weighted

  export

  import

  producer (PPIs)

  wholesale (WPIs)

  price wars, discounting

  prices

  basic

  bond

  changes

  commodity

  constant

  consumer

  changes in

  relative

  current

  depressed

  energy

  expectations

  export

  falling

  food

  gold

  house

  import

  market

  metal

  mineral

  nominal

  oil

  producer

  relative

  raw material

  real

  relative

  rises

  selling

  share

  weaker

  wholesale

  prime rate

  privatisation

  product differentiation

  production

  car

  domestic

  fall in

  industrial

  industrial and manufacturing

  level of

  manufacturing see manufacturing

  production

  oil

  steel

  structure of

  transfer of

  productivity

  capital

  cyclical

  fall in

  growth of

  and investment

  labour

  long-term trends

  and new infrastructure

  rise in

  profitability

  profits

  see also RIPDs

  public spending see expenditure: public

  public-sector borrowing requirement (PSBR)

  public-sector debt repayment (PSDR)

  public-sector net cash requirement

  purchasing power parity (PPP)

  Qatar

  quality

  quantity

  quotas

  raw materials

  “real changes”

  real terms

  receipts: net interest

  recession

  comparative

  demand

  expected

  global

  “growth”

  recovery from

  tax take declines during

  recessionary gap

  refinancing (“refi”) rate

  refugees

  reliability

  remittances

  rents

  see also RIPDs

  repo (sale and repurchase agreement)

  repurchase agreements

  reserve tranche

  reserves

  coal

  gold

  level of

  liquid

  official

  oil

  ratio to imports

  resource gap

  resources

  capital

  depletion

  national

  Retail Price Index (RPI)

  retail sales

  data

  retirement

  retraining

  revaluations

  reverse yield gap

  reweighting

  Riksbank (Sweden)

  RIPDS (rents, interest, profits and dividends)

  risks

  credit

  inflation

  Romania

  RPI see price indices

  RPIX

  RPIY

  Russia

  see also Soviet Union

  salaries

  sales

  car

  credit

  food

  forward

  government bond

  price-cutting

  retail

  wholesale

  sampling

  Saudi Arabia

  savings

  and ageing population

  domestic

  foreign

  government

  gross

  household

  investment and

  national

  net

  personal and household

  private

  ratios

  remitting

  tax treatment of

  SDRs (special drawing rights)

  seasonality

  adjustment

  variation in food prices

  self-employment

  services

  export of

  import of

  and output

  surveys

  shadow economy

  SIC (standard industrial classification)

  Singapore

  Slovakia

  Slovenia

  “Smithsonian agreement”

  smoothing

  social attitudes

  social factors

  social security

  benefits

  contributions

  fund

  social welfare

  South Africa

  South-East Asia

  Soviet Union, former

  inflation

  see also Russia

  Spain

  employment

  and financial crisis (2008)

  government debt

  house prices

  industry

  labour force

  manufacturing

  migration

  and recession

  shadow economy

  statistical publications

  spending see expenditure

  Standard & Poor

  statistical agencies

  Statistics Canada

  sterilisation

  stock:sales ratios

  stock control techniques

  stockbuilding

  stockmarkets

  stocks

  accumulation

  appreciation

  changes

  excess

  gold

  increase/fall

  and inflation

  investment in

  oil

  see also inventories

  stocks and shares see portfolios

  subprime mortgages

  subsidies

  export

  tax

&
nbsp; supply and demand

  supply constraints

  see also demand

  supply shock (cost push)

  surpluses

  surveys

  Sweden

  and the euro

  house prices

  industry

  labour force

  statistical publications

  subsidies

  tax revenues

  Switzerland

  housing-to-rent ratios

  industry

  labour force

  level of government

  shadow economy

  statistical publications

  unemployment

  Taiwan

  Tajikistan

  tariffs see quotas

  taxes

  automatic stabiliser

  cuts

  direct

  high

  income

  indirect

  payroll

  poll

  progressive

  proportional

  regressive

  revenues

  sales

  turnover

  value-added

  technological advances/change

  Thailand

  time series

  total domestic expenditure (TDE)

  total final expenditure/output (TFE/TFO)

  tourism

  trade

  balances

  deficits

  surpluses

  terms of

  visible

  trade cycle

  trade unions

  training

  transactions

  barter

  intermediate

  second-hand

  unrecorded

  transfer outflows

  transfer payments

  transfers

  abroad

  capital

  current

  Treasury bills

  trends

  changes in

  long-term

  retail sales

  troughs

  trusts

  Turkey

  Turkmenistan

  turnover

  housing

  wholesale

  twilight industries

  UK see Britain

  Ukraine

  ULCs (unit labour costs)

  UN (United Nations)

  Conference on Trade and Development

  Development Programme

  unemployment

  cyclical pattern

  fall in

  frictional

  high

  low

  natural rate of (NRU)

  non-accelerating inflation rate of (NAIRU)

  payments

  policies aimed at reducing

  rate

  residual

  rise in

  seasonal

  structural

  total

  unincorporated businesses

  unionisation

  unit values

  United Arab Emirates

  United States see America

  unpaid/domestic activities

  US Federal Reserve

  Open Market Committee (FOMC)

  US Institute for Supply Management

  Uzbekistan

  value

  SDRs

  see also volume

  value added

  see also VAT

  VAT (value-added tax)

  Missing Trader Inter-Community fraud

  vehicles

  Venezuela

  Visegrad four

  volume

  construction

  increases

  of sales

  value and

  wage drift

  wages

  wealth

  personal

  websites

  weighting

  base

  current

  welfare funds

  welfare payments

  work ethics

  World Bank

  yield calculations

  yields

  yield curve

  yield gap or reverse yield gap

  yield ratio

  Yugoslavia, former

 

 

 


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