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Productivity Statistics – 1988−2006


Revised 1 May 2007 – See attached Erratum

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Highlights


  • Labour productivity grew 0.7 percent in the measured sector for the year ended March 2006.

 

  • Annual labour productivity growth averaged 2.5 percent in the measured sector from 1988 to 2006.

 

  • Multifactor productivity fell 1.0 percent in the measured sector for the year ended March 2006.

 

  • Capital productivity fell 2.9 percent in the measured sector for the year ended March 2006.


 







 

Dallas Welch
Acting Government Statistician
16 March 2007
Cat 51.904 Set 06/07 – 140


There is a companion Media Release published  – Productivity Statistics 1988–2006.

 



  Productivity Statistics: 1988–2006 (revised) (pdf)



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