Multifactor Productivity

Major Sector and 3-Digit NAICS Manufacturing Industries

IMPORTANT Download standard multifactor data tables:

• Comprehensive tables of multifactor productivity and related capital data for private business, private nonfarm business and manufacturing.
• Historical multifactor productivity measures (SIC 1948-87 linked to NAICS 1987-2008)
• Superceded historical SIC measures for private business and private nonfarm business sectors, 1948-2002
• Superceded historical SIC measures for manufacturing sectors and 2-digit SIC manufacturing industries, 1949-2001

Analytic Tables and Charts

• NEW Multifactor Productivity Growth by Major Sector, 1948-2008. Bar Chart
• Contributions of Manufacturing Industries to private nonfarm business multifactor productivity (PDF 50K)
• Sources of growth in Real Output in the private nonfarm business sector (PDF 29K)
• Contribution of Research and Development to Private Nonfarm Business Multifactor Productivity including Research and Development stocks
• Sources of growth in Real Output in the private business sector (PDF 29K)

Detailed 4-Digit NAICS Industries

NEW Multifactor productivity data for 4-digit NAICS manufacturing industries and two transportation industries. Measures for air transportation and line-haul railroads have been updated to 2007.

• Indexes
• Rates of change
• Cost shares

Superceded historical multifactor productivity data for SIC manufacturing industries and railroad transportation

• Indexes, 1987-99
• Indexes, historical to 1987