444 results

Important information:

Loading search results

Sorry, there are no matching results.

Select another topic or clear all filters.

  • GDP and the labour market: Q2 2015 quarterly update

    Released on: 12 August 2015 | Article

    We look at the developments in GDP and the labour market since the economic downturn in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008. During this period, GDP has grown by a similar amount to both employment and total hours worked. This implies a relatively flat productivity growth.

  • Homeworking hours, rewards and opportunities in the UK: 2011 to 2020

    Released on: 19 April 2021 | Article

    Working from home in the UK between 2011 and 2020, including the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Looking at indicators of productivity and work success such as pay, hours worked, bonuses, promotions and more, with industry, region and demographic breakdowns. Part of the Economic review: April 2021.

  • UK Environmental Accounts: How much material is the UK consuming?

    Released on: 29 February 2016 | Article

    Estimates of material consumption in the UK from 2000 to 2013, taking the extraction of raw materials and physical imports and exports into account. It explores how much material is consumed per person and shows how material consumption relates to economic activity (known as ‘resource productivity’). Comparisons with European estimates are also presented.

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

    Released on: 6 October 2016 | Article

    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.

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

    Released on: 6 October 2016 | Article

    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).

  • Quality Adjusted Labour Input: Estimates to 2014

    Released on: 22 May 2015 | Article

    Quality Adjusted Labour Input (QALI) is a method of measuring changes in the volume of labour input into production which accounts for changes in the composition (or ‘quality’) of the workforce as well as changes in hours worked. This article presents new estimates for 2014 for the whole economy, the market sector and a range of sub-aggregates by industry, educational qualifications, age and gender, as well as revisions to the back series. QALI provides a more comprehensive description of labour input to the production process than pure volume metrics such as hours worked, jobs or workers employed. The strength of these metrics relative to output growth since the economic downturn has come to be referred to as the "productivity puzzle". If labour quality had fallen over this period, then this would have offered a partial explanation of the puzzle. The new estimates show that labour quality did fall - fractionally - in 2014. This was the first decrease in labour quality on an annual basis since comparable QALI estimates began in 1994, and followed only a small rise in labour quality in 2013. However, these estimates suggest only that labour quality has stopped exacerbating the productivity puzzle; they do not explain it.

  • Productivity measures

    Released on: 2 February 2016 | Methodology

    Statistics relating to productivity are vital to understanding the economy and how it changes. These pages bring together our productivity publications relating to productivity measures and theories, explaining how they are sourced and formulated. As such, they provide a valuable resource for anyone investigating how productivity is measured and influenced. For further information, email productivity@ons.gov.uk.

  • Productivity measures

    Topic

    Economic productivity measures (including output per hour, output per job and output per worker), productivity in the public sector, and international comparisons of productivity across the G7 nations.

  • Regional productivity methodology

    Released on: 2 February 2016 | Methodology

  • Labour productivity

    Topic

    Efficiency of the UK workforce, including output per worker, per job and per hour. Data are available by industry and by region.