Ons Productivity Handbook - A Statistical Overview and Guide

Informationen zum Autor The OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (ONS) is the government department that provides UK statistical and registration services. ONS is responsible for producing a wide range of key economic and social statistics which are used by policy makers across government to create evidence-based policies and monitor performance against them. The Office also builds and maintains data sources both for itself and for its business and research customers. It makes statistics available so that everyone can easily assess the state of the nation! the performance of government! and their own position. Klappentext ONS Productivity Handbook: a Statistical Overview and Guide examines the importance and relevance of economic productivity and serves as a reference on the subject. Areas covered include productivity analysis within various sectors and at firm level as well as measures of labour and capital inputs. Zusammenfassung ONS Productivity Handbook: a Statistical Overview and Guide examines the importance and relevance of economic productivity and serves as a reference on the subject. Areas covered include productivity analysis within various sectors and at firm level as well as measures of labour and capital inputs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface from the National Statistician. Overview making ONS productivity material more accessible and coherent to its many users. Introduction defining productivity! its impact on economic and social policy and outlines of different productivity measures. The Framework for ONS Productivity Outputs ONS streams of work in productivity and statistics needed to measure and analyse productivity. Productivity Theory and Drivers key determinates of productivity growth and the growth accounting framework. Output Measures: UK National Accounts construction and comparison of measures of output! gross domestic product (GDP) and gross value added (GVA); industry analysis of output data. Input Measures: Labour and Capital ensuring consistency and enhancing analysis of input measures; two new ONS calculations for multifactor productivity: quality-adjusted labour input measures and volume index of capital services. Quality Adjustment practical issues for market and public sector quality adjustment. Productivity: Whole Economy and Multi-factor trends in UK productivity! measuring structural shifts in the economy and methodology and data used for multi-factor estimates. Productivity: Market Sector! Services and Industry experimental measures of market sector productivity! how market sector and service sector productivity fits together! key issues in measuring a service-dominated economy ...

Product details

• Authors: Na Na, Office For National Statistics
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2007
• EAN: 9780230573017
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57301-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; C, Business, Economics, finance, business & management, Statistics, Business and Management, Business & management, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Economics and Finance, Business and Management, general, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social research & statistics, Management science, Probability & statistics, Labor Economics, Labor and Population Economics, accounting;methodology;productivity;statistics