The ONS Productivity Handbook: A Statistical Overview and Guide (Paperback)

Preface from the National Statistician.
Overview making ONS productivity material more accessible and coherent to its many users.
Introduction defining productivity, its impact on economic and social policy and outlines of different productivity measures.
The Framework for ONS Productivity Outputs ONS streams of work in productivity and statistics needed to measure and analyse productivity.
Productivity Theory and Drivers key determinates of productivity growth and the growth accounting framework.
Output Measures: UK National Accounts construction and comparison of measures of output, gross domestic product (GDP) and gross value added (GVA); industry analysis of output data.
Input Measures: Labour and Capital ensuring consistency and enhancing analysis of input measures; two new ONS calculations for multifactor productivity: quality-adjusted labour input measures and volume index of capital services.
Quality Adjustment practical issues for market and public sector quality adjustment.
Productivity: Whole Economy and Multi-factor trends in UK productivity, measuring structural shifts in the economy and methodology and data used for multi-factor estimates.
Productivity: Market Sector, Services and Industry experimental measures of market sector productivity, how market sector and service sector productivity fits together, key issues in measuring a service-dominated economy