To
provide and analyze data on productivity in major sectors of the
U.S. economy and specific industries and develop productivity and
other measures for selected countries.
TYPES
OF ASSISTANCE:
Dissemination of Technical Information. Place Cursor Here for Definition
USES
AND USE RESTRICTIONS:
Provides
for: (a) Productivity studies presenting indexes of output per hour
of all persons for the business sector and for major sub-sectors;
(b) multifactor productivity indexes (output per unit of combined
labor and capital inputs) for private business, private nonfarm
business, manufacturing, and major industries, and indexes of output
per unit of capital; (c) multifactor productivity measures for selected
industries including capital, labor, energy, materials, and purchased
business services inputs; (d) industry productivity studies presenting
output per employee-hour, output per employee, unit labor costs,
and related data for selected industries; and (e) international
comparisons of productivity, labor costs, and the labor force and
unemployment.
Approximately 29 reports, studies, and articles are expected to
be completed each year during fiscal years 2001, to 2002, approximately
6,236 individual statistical series were maintained in 2001. Quarterly
labor productivity and cost measures for major sectors are published
regularly. Multifactor productivity measures for major-sectors,
and industry labor and multifactor productivity measures are published
each year. International comparisons of productivity, compensation,
and unemployment are also ongoing activities of this Office.
REGULATIONS,
GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE:
"BLS
Handbook of Methods"; "Major Programs Bureau of Labor Statistics";
"BLS Publications on Productivity and Technology"; "Estimating Capital
Inputs for Productivity Measurement: An Overview of Concepts and
Methods"; "Manufacturing Costs, Productivity, and Competitiveness,
1979-93"; "Improvements to the Quarterly Productivity Measures";
"The Impact of Research and Development on Productivity Growth";
"Trends in Multifactor Productivity, 1948-81"; "Productivity and
Costs in the Business Economy and Major Sectors"; "Recent Changes
in the Growth of the U.S. Multifactor Productivity"; "Labor Composition
and U.S. Productivity Growth, 1948-90"; "Measurement of Productivity
Growth in U.S. Manufacturing"; "Difficulties in the Measurement
of Service Outputs"; "BLS Modernizes Industry Labor Productivity
Program"; "Multifactor Productivity: Cotton and Synthetic Broadwoven
Fabrics"; "Multifactor Productivity in Railroad Transportation";
"Productivity Growth Improves in House furnishings Industry"; "Federal
Productivity Measurement Program: The Final Results"; "Multifactor
Productivity: Refrigeration and Heating Equipment Industry"; "Productivity
in the Fabricated Plate Work Industry"; "Productivity Trends in
the Mobile Homes Industry"; "Productivity Trends in Two Retail Trade
Industries"; "The Changing Family in International Perspective.";
"International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production
Workers in Manufacturing"; "Comparative Labor Force Statistics,
10 Countries"; "Manufacturing Multifactor Productivity in Three
Countries"; "International Comparisons of Unemployment"; "Consumer
Price Indexes, Sixteen Countries"; "Consumer Price Indexes in Nine
Countries, Percent Change from Previous Period"; "Unpublished Comparative
Gross Domestic Product Per Capita and Per Employed Person, Fourteen
Countries"; "U.S. and Foreign Productivity and Unit Labor Costs";
"BLS Completes Major Expansion of Industry Productivity Series";
"Measuring State and Local Government Labor Productivity: Examples
from Eleven Services"; "The Accuracy of the BLS Productivity Measures";
"How Price Indexes Affect BLS Productivity Measures"; "International
Labor Productivity and Per Capita Income"; "Possible Measurement
Bias in Aggregate Productivity Growth"; "Productivity by Industry";
"International Unemployment Rates: How Comparable Are They?"; "A
Perspective on the US Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap"; "Multifactor
Productivity Trends in Manufacturing Industries 1987-1996"; "Employment
and Unemployment in Mexico in the 1990's"; "Multifactor Productivity
Measures for Three-digit SIC Manufacturing Industries"; "Unit Labor
Costs for Selected Industries, 1987-1997"; "Labor Productivity in
the Retail Trade Industry, 1987-99".
INFORMATION
CONTACTS:
Regional
or Local Office: Contact the nearest regional
office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics listed in Appendix IV of
the Catalog.
Headquarters
Office: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Office of Productivity and Technology, 2 Massachusetts
Avenue, NE., Washington, DC 20212. Telephone: (202) 691-5600.
Contact: Office of the Associate Commissioner.
