Tables

Reference tables

This dataset and predefined summary tables are a complement to the report Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation, which monitors agricultural policy developments in both OECD member countries and non-OECD economies. The OECD uses a comprehensive system for measuring and classifying support to agriculture - the Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSEs and CSEs) and related indicators. They provide insight into the increasingly complex nature of agricultural policy and serve as a basis for OECD’s work on agricultural policies.

Commodity indicators

This dataset is a complement to the publication Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation. It shows estimates of agricultural support for OECD countries as well as some non-member economies. These summary tables which are designed specifically to monitor, and evaluate the level and composition of agricultural policy support, focus on:

  • Producer Support Estimate (PSE), representing transfers granted to producers individually;
  • General Service Support Estimate (GSSE), representing transfers granted to producers collectively, that is, services that benefit agriculture but whose initial incidence is not at the level of individual farmers;
  • Consumer Support Estimate (CSE), representing transfers granted to consumers. The CSE is almost always negative because transfers from consumers due to market price support policies outweigh any consumption subsidies from taxpayers that might be granted to consumers.
  • Total Support Estimate (TSE), representing the sum of the three above-mentioned components, adjusted for double-counting given that some market price transfers are accounted for in both the PSE and CSE.

The value of those transfers are further analysed by looking at their relative share in agricultural support, in agricultural economy and in the economy as a whole, together with other indicators such as Nominal Assistance Coefficient (NAC) and Nominal Protection Coefficient (NPC).