This paper provides an overview of the productivity program at Statistics Canada and a brief description of Canada?s productivity performance. The paper defines productivity and the various measures that are used to investigate different aspects of productivity growth. It describes the...

The Canadian Productivity Accounts (CPA) of Statistics Canada maintain two multifactor productivity (MFP) programs. The Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Program develops the indexes of MFP for the total business sector and major industry groups in the business sector. The Industry...

L'objectif de cette etude est triple. Pour commencer, nous examinons le niveau de la productivite multifactorielle (PMF) au Canada comparativement aux Etats-Unis pour la periode allant de 1994 a 2003. Puis, nous determinons l'importance relative des differences d'intensite du capital et de PMF...

Le but de l'etude est d'examiner les effets de diverses methodes de calcul du cout d'usage du capital sur les estimations des indices de prix et de volume des services de capital. Nous determinons la sensibilite des resultats a l'utilisation d'un taux de rendement exogene par opposition a...

This paper explores the linkages between export-market participation and productivity performance in Canadian manufacturing plants, between foreign-controlled and domestic-controlled plants, and between young and older plants.

This paper outlines the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and exited the Canadian manufacturing sector during the three periods: 1973-1979, 1979-1988 and 1988-1997. It also examines the contribution of plant turnover to labour productivity growth in the manufacturing sector over...

La croissance de la productivite du travail dans le secteur des entreprises au Canada a connu un ralentissement substantiel apres 2000. La majeure partie du ralentissement a eu lieu dans le secteur de la fabrication. Le present document vise a examiner comment ce ralentissement a ete lie a la...

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown occurred in the manufacturing sector. This paper examines how this slowdown was associated with the restructuring that occurred in manufacturing as a result of the increase in excess...