Summary

Output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the UK economy by industry.

Publications

• Labour productivity, UK: April to June 2016

  Output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the whole economy and a range of industries. Includes estimates of unit labour costs.

• UK productivity introduction: Apr to June 2016

  This article draws together the key findings from official statistics and analysis of UK productivity to present a summary of recent developments.

• Measuring output in the Information Communication and Telecommunications industries: 2016

  Presents initial findings from a review of data sources and methods used in estimating output of the Information Communication and Telecommunications Industries, with a focus on the Telecommunications Industry. This review was conducted in collaboration with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Ofcom, ONS Research Fellows, members of the academia and industry experts, and concludes that the quality adjustment of prices of technology products should be further developed to improve GDP and productivity estimates.

• Experimental data on the management practices of manufacturing businesses in Great Britain: 2016

  In 2016 ONS launched a pilot survey of British manufacturing businesses to collect information on their management practices for the first time. This paper presents information on the design and initial results of the survey, focusing on descriptive statistics on the distribution of structured management practices across various characteristics of manufacturing businesses in Great Britain. The results of this pilot survey suggest that on average large businesses and multinationals have more structured management practices than smaller businesses. Businesses which are owned and managed by family members have less structured management practices. There is also some notable variation of structured practices across industry groups.

• Developing labour market metrics for the market sector, UK: 2016

  Development of new labour market metrics covering market sector employment, hours worked and labour remuneration, which have been compiled at component-industry level for the first time. The primary motivation for this development work is to populate a new industry-level market sector quality-adjusted labour input (QALI) framework to allow more rigorous estimation of market sector multi-factor productivity (MFP).

• Quarterly public service productivity (experimental statistics): Apr to June 2016

  Experimental estimates for quarterly total public service productivity, inputs and output to provide a short-term, timely indicator of the future path of the annual productivity estimates. A previous publication ‘New nowcasting methods for more timely quarterly estimates of UK total public service productivity’ gives information on the methodology and data sources behind the new quarterly estimates.

Data

• Historical series of labour productivity

  Longer runs of selected productivity and unit labour cost series

• Labour productivity: revisions triangles

  Revisions triangles for the main labour productivity variables.

• Labour productivity time series

  Quarterly output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the whole UK economy and a range of industries.

• Breakdown of contributions, whole economy and sectors

  Provides estimates of contributions to labour productivity, measured as output per hour (OPH), using the "Generalised Exactly Additive Decomposition" (GEAD) methodology as described in Tang and Wang (2004), UK.

• Labour productivity: Tables 1 to 8 and R1

  Quarterly output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the whole UK economy and a range of industries.

• Productivity jobs, productivity hours, market sector workers, market sector hours

  Underlying labour inputs behind the labour productivity estimates by industry and industrial sector as defined by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), UK.

• Sectional unit labour costs

  Sectional unit labour costs and revisions from previously published estimates, UK.

• 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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Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   1 October 2016 9:30am

   Reason for change

   Provisional date changed

2. Previous date

   7 October 2016 9:30am

   Reason for change

   To relieve pressure on publication schedule

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