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Productivity Statistics: 1978–2007


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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.

     

  • Annual labour productivity growth averaged 1.1 percent in the measured sector from 2000–2007.
  • Average annual growth in labour productivity was 2.0 percent for the measured sector from 1978–2007.

 

  • 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.




Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
13 March 2008
ISSN 1178-0630


There is a companion Media Release published – Productivity Statistics: 1978–2007.

 



  Productivity Statistics: 1978–2007 (pdf)



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