Productivity Handbook

Statistics relating to productivity are vital to understanding the economy and how it changes.

The ONS Productivity Handbook provides a reference source for everyone who uses ONS productivity measures to gain insight into the UK economy and its place in the world in the 21st century, for example academics, policy makers and assessors, and economic analysts.

This Handbook brings together all ONS productivity measures and theories, and explaines how they are sourced and formulated.

As such, it provides a valuable resource for anyone working on or studying how productivity is measured and influenced.

The content reflects consultation with users of ONS statistics to ensure that it addresses important areas and issues within productivity analysis.

• Overview of Productivity Handbook

  Brief overview of the ONS Productivity Handbook

• Foreword by the National Statistician

  Foreward to the ONS Productivity Handbook by Karen Dunnell, ONS National Statistician, October 2008

• Introduction to Productivity Handbook

  Introductory chapter to the Productivity Handbook providing a definition of productivity along with an explanation of how and why it is used

• ONS Framework for Productivity

  ONS productivity outputs and streams of work

• Productivity Theory and Drivers

  The main determinants of drivers of productivity growth

• Output Measures: UK National Accounts

  Outlines productivity and the Input-Output Supply and Use Tables as they are produced in the UK

• Input Measures: Labour and Capital

  Considers the importance of consistency within productivity estimates

• Quality Adjustment

  The practicality of issues encountered in quality adjustment of productivity

• Market Sector, Services and Industries

  Discussing factor complications and complexities in measures of productivity

• Public Service Productivity

  Public Service Productivity including public expenditure and taxation

• Micro, or Firm Level, Productivity

  On the use of virtual and computer-managed data in measures of productivity

• Regional Productivity

  Productivity differences between regions

• International Comparisons of Productivity

  The importance of the International Comparisons of Productivity (ICP)

• The way forward for productivity statistics

  Looking into the future of productivity statistics quality amd methodology

• Productivity Handbook Glossary

  Glossary of terms used in the ONS Productivity Handbook