This report was prepared by Guillaume Cohen, under the supervision of Žiga Žarnić and Marco Mira d’Ercole; and the direction of Romina Boarini. Kübra Ergün contributed to all chapters and provided statistical and research assistance.
Martine Zaïda is the communications coordinator and has provided essential support throughout. Julia Carro assisted communications and publishing and Anne-Lise Faron prepared and formatted the manuscript for publication. Patrick Hamm copy edited the work. Sonia Primot designed the front cover.
This report is also the outcome of a collective effort with contributions from policy analysts and statisticians from around the OECD. The report draws on analysis carried out by a range of OECD Directorates. We are thus grateful to many colleagues for their help, comments and insights, either on draft text, or on specific queries. These colleagues include: Nadim Ahmad, Marcos Díaz Ramírez, Lorenz Gross and Stefano Marta from the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities. David Bradbury and Joseph Stead from the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Yasmin Ahmad, Marylin Bachmann, Eric Bensel, John Egan, Paul Horrocks, Valentina Orru, Esme Sout and Chantal Verger from the Development Co-operation Directorate. Alejandra María Meneses, Pierre de Boisséson and Hyeshin Park from the Development Centre. Filippo Maria D'Arcangelo, Orsetta Causa, Tobias Kruse, Ilai Levin, Alessia Pagani, Mauro Pisu, and Zuzana Smidova from the Economics Department. Manon Costinot, Marie-Helene Doumet, Corinne Heckmann, Marta Encinas-Martin and Michael Ward from the Education Directorate. Marion Devaux, Rodrigo Fernandez, Emily Hewlett, Chris James, Sebastian Königs, Maxime Ladaique, Gaëtan Lafortune, Jongmi Lee and David Morgan from the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate. Jane Ellis, Chiara Falduto, Guy Halpern, Myriam Linster, Alexander Mackie, Sara Miet, Katia Karousakis, Sara Ramos Magaña and Dimitra Xynou from the Environment Directorate. Pinar Guven, Ernesto Soria Morales and Laura Völker from the Public Governance Directorate. Jesús Antón, Fabiana Cerasa, Claire Delpeuch, Koen Deconinck and Guillaume Gruère from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate. Benoit Arnaud, Esther Bolton, David Brackfield, Daniel Clarke, Anne-Sophie Fraisse, Annabelle Mourougane, Sonia Primot, Belen Zinni and Jorrit Zwijnenburg from the Statistics and Data Directorate. Mario Cervantes, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Guy Lalanne, Audrey Plonk and Verena Weber from the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation. Carlotta Balestra, Grainne Dirwan, Carrie Exton, Lara Fleischer, Michal Shinwell and Liva Stokenberga from the Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity.
The report has benefited from helpful comments on early drafts provided by national delegates to the OECD Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP). Their contributions and advice are kindly acknowledged and we hope the resulting product can be useful for their work.