Measuring Productivity in the System of National Accounts

Walter Erwin Diewert ()

UBC Departmental Archives from UBC Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper reviews some of the measurement problems that are associated with measuring sectoral Total Factor Productivity growth rates. The paper notes that the production accounts in the present System of National Accounts (SNA) need to be extended somewhat in order to be suitable as a data base for measuring sectoral productivity growth rates. In particular, the treatment of exports, imports and indirect taxes is not completely adequate for productivity measurement purposes in the present SNA. Finally, the paper considers some of the problems that are associated with the measurement of banking sector outputs and the System of National Accounts FISIM (Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured) imputations.

Keywords: Total factor productivity growth; production accounts; System of National Accounts; exports and imports in the input output accounts; the measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 C67 C82 D24 D57 D92 E22 F11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff and nep-mac
Date: 2007-11-16, Revised 2007-11-16
View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://microeconomics.ca/erwin_diewert/sna.pdf Main Text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ubc:bricol:diewert-07-11-16-12-39-23

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in UBC Departmental Archives from UBC Department of Economics
Series data maintained by Maureen Chin ().