This paper describes how the analytical program of Statistics Canada's productivity group is used to enhance the quality (relevance, coherence, interpretability) of its products.

A statistical agency faces several challenges in building Productivity Accounts. Measures of productivity require that outputs be compared to inputs. During the last forty years, data users in the economics profession have requested an increasingly sophisticated set of productivity measures....

This paper discusses the productivity program at Statistics Canada, covering topics such as international efforts to provide more comparable statistics, attempts to expand our knowledge of the factors behind productivity growth, and challenges facing the program.