Industry productivity database

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The industry productivity database through the year 2008 is now available. The labour data and capital data that are used by the Canadian Productivity Accounts to estimate labour input, capital input, and multifactor productivity growth in the industry productivity database are also available.

This database provides time series data for multifactor productivity, output and inputs that include capital, labour, energy, materials and purchased services in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) back to 1961.

The labour data include hours worked and labour compensation by sex, job category, age group, and educational attainment at a detailed industry level, according to NAICS for the period from 1961 to 2010.

Capital data include investment, capital stock and capital services of different types of physical assets at a detailed industry level, according to NAICS for the period from 1961 to 2008.

These data reflect the latest input-output tables for 2008, published in The Daily on November 8, 2011; revisions of fixed assets, published in The Daily on November 22, 2011; and revisions of hours worked for 1997 to 2010, published in The Daily on November 23, 2011. The revisions of hours worked reflect the revisions from the Labour Force Survey released in The Daily on January 28, 2011, and revisions from the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours as a result of major modifications to its estimation methodology, released in The Dailyon March 31, 2009.

Available on CANSIM: tables 383-0022, 383-0024 and 383-0025.

A description of the method used to derive productivity measures is offered online in the publication The Canadian Productivity Review: "User Guide for Statistics Canada's Annual Multifactor Productivity Program" (15-206-X2007014, free), available from the Key resource module of our website under Publications.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Wulong Gu (613-951-0754), Economic Analysis Division.