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Productivity growth in Canada
1961 to 1999
Productivity growth in Canada, a comprehensive analytical guide for analysts, researchers, students and consultants researching productivity measures, is now available.
This study includes an overview of standard productivity growth measures and data-construction procedures. It considers in detail several underlying theoretical concepts and measurement issues. It also illustrates how productivity measures and related economic performance indicators can be used and interpreted. In addition, a number of empirical studies illustrate the uses for productivity measures.
One chapter compares productivity growth in Canada to that in the United States based on data collected prior to the recent historical revision made by the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts, which made the two countries' gross domestic product estimates less comparable. The study stresses that, like any other statistics, productivity estimates are subject to measurement error. It underlines the care that needs to be taken when making international comparisons of productivity performance, and quantifies the size of the confidence interval that should be used around point estimates of productivity growth when drawing inferences about international productivity differences.
Productivity growth in Canada (15-204-XIE, $35; 15-204-XPE, $46) is now available. See How to order products.
For more information, contact John Baldwin (613-951-8588; baldjoh@statcan.gc.ca), Microeconomic Analysis Division.
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