Karen Wilson

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Productivity Measurement in the CSNA

• Karen Wilson
• Assistant Chief Statistician
• National Accounts Analytic Studies
• Statistics Canada

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History of KLEMS in Canada

• Canadian KLEMS database published In June 2007
• NAICS classification system
• 1961 to 2003
• 100 industries
• ISIC based dataset for EU-KLEMS (May 2008)
• Updated published annually with revision cycle
  of SNA

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Labour Services

• Hours worked by industry are estimated using high
  level industry benchmarks of actual hours
  worked (household survey) and allocated to
  detailed industries based on establishment level
  payroll survey data.
• Compositional effects are calculated by
  education, experience and class of worker
  benchmarked to quinquennial census
• The L from this new methodology has been
  adopted as the official measure of hours worked
  to go with the Canadian SNA and now both
  quarterly labour productivity and annual regional
  labour productivity are part of the product line
  of the official accounts

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Capital Services

• New estimates of Capital Stock by type of asset
  by industry have been developed for the new and
  improved KLEMS.
• Capital expenditure survey collects investment
  flows, expected asset lives and discard prices by
  type of asset
• Both age/price and age/efficiency point to
  geometric patterns for Canada
• Capital services are based on these new estimates
  the new stocks will be integrated into the
  official CSNA in 2012 with adoption of SNA2008

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Advantages of embedding KLEMS

• Feedback loop on Output, value-added, and
  intermediate inputs for SNA (data quality
  assurance)
• Analytic Framework for setting priorities for
  improvements in the production statistics
• Analytic Framework to road test new variables
  (RD capital, other intangibles, resource
  productivity)
• Productivity research consistent with macro
  policy analysis

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Upcoming Developments

• Full integration of capital stocks/flows and
  capital services with SNA (2012)
• Release of more detail especially on capital
• Renovation of Input Output tables in Canada to
  include more services industries
• KLEMS as the main time series database for
  industry accounts