Productivity Statistics: 1978-2007

Highlights

Annual productivity series for the measured sector from 1978–2007 are now available. The business services industry, and personal and other community services industry are now included in the measured sector from 1996 onwards.	Average annual growth in labour productivity was 2.0 percent for the measured sector from 1978–2007.
Annual labour productivity growth averaged 1.1 percent in the measured sector from 2000–2007.	Capital productivity fell 0.5 percent annually in the measured sector from 2000–2007.
	Multifactor productivity grew 0.4 percent in the measured sector from 2000–2007.

Graph, Measured Sector Productivity Indexes.

Geoff Bascand	13 March 2008
Government Statistician	ISSN 1178-0630