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Public service productivity, quarterly, UK: October to December 2024
What's in the bulletin?
- We are publishing quarterly estimates of healthcare inputs, output, and productivity for the second time, alongside the estimates of total public service productivity, inputs, and output; healthcare is the largest individual service area by share of expenditure, at approximately 39.2%.
- This is our first quarterly release since incorporating improvements to our accredited annual release following the National Statistician’s Independent Review of the Measurement of Public Services Productivity, and includes a more complete healthcare benchmark for the financial year ending 2023 consistent with National Accounts; as such, we have positively revised estimates of public service productivity relative to 2019 since our last quarterly release.
- Total public service productivity in the UK was estimated to have grown by 0.1% in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2024, compared with Quarter 4 2023, while healthcare productivity was estimated to have grown 0.8% over the same period.
Public and private sectors in the UK, comparisons of management practices: 2023
An analysis of structured management practices and organisational characteristics, as reported in 2023 across the public and private sectors in the UK.Datasets related to Public services productivity
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Public service productivity nowcasts, UK
Experimental dynamic regression nowcast estimates of public service productivity.
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COFOG by service area and government department for public service productivity
Public service productivity: Classification of functions of government (COFOG) by service area and government department, UK, experimental data.
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Public service productivity estimates: total public service
Inputs, output and productivity indices and growth rates for total public services. Includes estimates of quality adjustment, service expenditure and revisions.
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Public service productivity, quarterly
Reference tables for experimental statistics on UK public service productivity. Includes estimates of inputs, output, productivity, and revisions compared to estimates from the previous quarter.
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Public service productivity estimates: healthcare, UK and England
Public service healthcare growth rates and indices for inputs, quality and non-quality adjusted output and productivity, totals and by components, for England, financial years ending 1996 to 2017 and UK, 1995 to 2016.
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Public service productivity, adult social care, England
Trends in publicly funded adult social care inputs, quantity and quality of output, and productivity in England, between financial year ending 1997 and financial year ending 2023.
Publications related to Public services productivity
Statistical bulletins
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Public service productivity, quarterly, UK: October to December 2024
UK total public service and healthcare productivity, inputs, and output, to provide a short-term, timely indicator of annual productivity estimates. These are official statistics in development.
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Time use in the public sector, Great Britain: further analysis, February 2024
Estimates and opinions of time spent by public sector workers on a range of work activities. These are official statistics in development.
Articles
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Public and private sectors in the UK, comparisons of management practices
An analysis of structured management practices and organisational characteristics, as reported in 2023 across the public and private sectors in the UK.
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Public service productivity, UK
An overview of UK annual public service productivity between 1997 and 2020, and a new experimental measure for the path of annual UK public service productivity in 2021 and 2022.
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Public service productivity
Updated measures of output, inputs and productivity for UK public services between 1997 and 2022, including service area breakdown, quality adjustment, and latest revisions.
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Public service productivity
Experimental estimates for UK total public service productivity, inputs and output to provide a short-term, timely indicator of the future path of the annual productivity estimates.
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Public service productivity, adult social care, England
Trends in publicly funded adult social care inputs, quantity and quality of output, and productivity in England, between financial year ending 1997 and financial year ending 2021.
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A guide to quality adjustment in public service productivity measures
This guide explains what a quality adjustment is, including important underlying concepts, statistical properties, and application in the National Statistic.
Methodology related to Public services productivity
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