Information and communication technology (ICT) products have undergone rapid technical change. Where quality improvements occur, they should be reflected in official price and quantity indices, otherwise there is a tendency to over-estimate price movements and under-estimate volume changes of...

<DIV>Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability. The recent recession renewed commitments to closing long-standing gaps in economic measurement, including those related to...</div>

Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD and Eurostat countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services being consumed or whether they reflect...

We show how technical change, measured as a shift in the GDP function, is combined with net income to track welfare change. This provides a bridge between the productivity literature and the welfare-related literature that tends to reason in terms of net product functions: although the relevant...

This paper deals with the construction of statistics for area or zone totals for groups of countries. It discusses various ways to construct volume and value series and reviews some of the implications for resulting indirect price indices. The paper then takes a more specific look at the Euro...

Cet article présente une étude comparative de l’incidence de l’accumulation de capital TIC sur la croissance de la production en Allemagne, en Australie, au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Finlande, en France, en Italie, au Japon et au Royaume-Uni. L’analyse se fonde sur un cadre de...

Cette étude examine les principaux problèmes rencontrés lors du calcul d’indicateurs de productivité. Elle fournit également des pistes aux chercheurs et aux statisticiens pour résoudre ces problèmes. Elle se fonde sur le Manuel de la productivité de l’OCDE et sur les travaux...

Les mesures de la productivité revêtent une importance primordiale pour l’estimation de la croissance économique. Les mesures de la productivité multifactorielle (ou productivité totale des facteurs) ou de la productivité du capital sont tributaires de la disponibilité de séries...

This paper compares the impact of ICT capital accumulation on output growth in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis uses a growth accounting framework and a newly compiled database of investment in ICT equipment and...

This paper discusses the main measurement issues in calculating productivity indicators, and provides guidance to researchers and statisticians in addressing these difficulties. It draws on the OECD Productivity Manual and on recent OECD work on productivity levels. The paper examines a range of...