Statisticians-Data analysts

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, whose mission is to build better policies for better lives. We promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, we work to establish evidence-based international standards, and finding solutions to a broad range of social, economic and environmental challenges, from the improvement of economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion. We provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting.

The Economics Department (ECO) leads co-ordinated, innovative, international action with respect to the OECD’s work on economic policy, both international and domestic. The Department implements the priorities of the Programme of Work and Budget (PWB) set by Member Countries and the Secretary-General in its area of business.

TheEconomics Department aims at enhancing economic performance in Member and non-Member countries through sound and innovative policy advice with a view to seeking an inclusive and durable increase in living standards. It deals with a wide array of policy areas combining macro-economic management, with a strong emphasis on structural policy issues to address policy objectives covering material well-being, social concerns and green aspirations. Its policy advice is derived from a variety of sources such as country surveillance, cross-country benchmarking and evidence derived from empirical research. Much of the Economics Department’s policy analysis and advice is provided as input to committee-based peer review and multilateral surveillance processes and contributes to the overall OECD mission. The Economics Department interacts with several other OECD directorates working in specific policy fields.

The Economics Department is launching a pooled recruitment campaign for Statisticians to cover the full cycle of statistical activities from data collection, data management and analysis, to data dissemination for specific statistical subject matters.

Job Description

Main Responsibilities

Data collection and dataset management

• Gather data from OECD member and non-member countries, develop and implement innovative and efficient approaches to data collection, including the use of digital data sources, automated data collection and data transfer solutions and AI-assisted methods where appropriate.
• Convert national data collected from countries into specific OECD formats, including data manipulation and various other analytical calculations, using efficient, reproducible and increasingly automated data-processing workflows.
• Verify the accuracy, coherence, quality and internal consistency of the data and metadata using appropriate validation procedures, automated quality checks and other modern data-quality tools.
• Manage statistical databases covering the range of statistical activities relevant to the work area, ensuring that data are well structured, documented, accessible and fit for analytical and dissemination purposes.
• Update and maintain the international comparability of data including methodological changes (e.g. when new international definitions are introduced), and research new data and data sources to expand the database coverage, including non-traditional and emerging sources where relevant.
• Build and maintain contacts with statistical staff in national and other international statistical agencies, with a view to improving data coverage, relevance and availability of methodological information, data transfer and timeliness.
• Keep abreast of the work of other international and national organisations (e.g. UN, Eurostat, the World Bank) on topics relevant to the Department’s statistical work, as well as developments in statistical standards, data technologies and emerging sources of data.

Analysis, methodology, drafting, documentation and presentation

• Use advanced and innovative statistical and analytical methods to analyse data with the objective of reporting on the main findings, using individual country level or cross-country data.
• Participate in the drafting and production of statistical and analytical publications and/or reports.
• Develop clear, accurate and compelling charts to communicate statistical findings and analytical results effectively to technical and non-technical audiences and present complex data in an accessible and policy-relevant manner.
• Contribute to improving the design of questionnaires in order to extend data coverage, enhance their relevance and improve the availability of methodological informat