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Productivity Measures: ONS Strategy
A coherent strategy for ONS’ work on productivity, with clear statements of the priorities; a quick review of ONS work on productivity; results of a consultation with key users.
Improving productivity is one of the Government’s key policy objectives. This article provides a coherent strategy for ONS’ work on productivity, with clear statements of the priorities. It starts with a quick review of the ONS work on productivity to date, followed by the results of a consultation with key users conducted in October / November 2001 which identify users’ priorities and concerns. The work programmes to be taken forward by the ONS are outlined in Section IV. These programmes fall into four main areas: service sector productivity, labour input, capital input and utilisation of the Annual Business Inquiry data. We believe that though each is small in its own right, these programmes together constitute a significant step forward in terms of meeting users’ requirements for productivity data.
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