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This paper describes a Business Sector Data Base (BSDB) for OECD countries constructed in the context of recent work of the OECD Economics and Statistics Department. It discusses many of the problems of consistency between the usual sources of economic statistics for each of the concepts used and describes the choices made to construct a consistent data base. In two important areas where major problems arise, namely the treatment of capital stock and energy, it has been necessary to construct a number of new estimates. The resulting data base is available on PC diskette to the general public on a subscription basis ...

Cet article décrit une base de données internationale relative au secteur des entreprises, la BSDB, construite dans le cadre des travaux récents du Département des affaires économiques et statistiques de l'OCDE. Les problèmes de cohérence entre les sources de données statistiques correspondant à chacun des concepts utilisés ainsi que les choix nécessaires à la construction d'une base de données cohérente sont décrits et discutés dans cet article. Dans deux importants domaines pour lesquels se posent des problèmes statistiques le sotck de capital et l'énergie, il a été nécessaire de construire de nouvelles estimations. La base de données dérivée est mise à la disposition du public sur disquette pour micro-ordinateur sur abonnement ...

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