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Table 3
Multifactor productivity and public capital contributions across elasticity estimates

Multifactor productivity and public capital contributions across elasticity estimates
  1962 to 2006 1962 to 1966 1967 to 1973 1974 to 1979 1980 to 1988 1989 to 1999 1999 to 2006
  percent
Public capital contribution  
Beta = 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
Beta = 0.10 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1
Beta = 0.15 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2
Multifactor productivity contribution  
Beta = 0.00 0.4 1.5 1.0 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.2
Beta = 0.05 0.3 1.3 0.8 -0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.1
Beta = 0.10 0.2 1.2 0.7 -0.2 -0.2 0.0 0.0
Beta = 0.15 0.1 1.0 0.5 -0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.0
Source(s):
Statistics Canada.