Business Cycle Factsheet Wouter Jonkers Statistics Netherlands November 6th, 2009
Background Monitoring business cycle in general and economic crisis in particular; Main finding: Most important lack not: number of indicators and timeliness; But: “Statistical storytelling”
Purpose business cycle factsheet - To provide an overall picture with coherent sets of monthly statistics More rapidly than the quarterly national accounts.
Components Business Cycle Factsheet
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General features In statistical system between monthly statistics and national (quarterly) accounts Realtime; “pictures” are never revised Visualizations/interactive: easy to “read” and interpret
Future plans - More radars and coherent indicator sets: labour market tension gauge radars for fixed capital formation and household consumption. More indicators on a monthly basis: Fixed capital formation Stocks of finished products.
Business Cycle Tracer
Business Cycle Dashboard
Business Cycle tracer indicator
Exports Radar