A reminder
> Monday 13th December 16.30 for 17.00. Royal Statistical Society,
> 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX (for a map and directions see
> http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html ). Attendance at the meeting,
> starting with tea/coffee at 4.30 pm, is free and open to all.
>
> PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT AND PART-TIME WORK
>
> Wendy Olsen, Lecturer in Socio-Economic Research, University of Manchester
>
> In measuring productivity, per-hour measures of gross value added are
> used.
> This talk covers the meaning of productivity, its measurement under the
> GVA
> system, and current UK performance in per-hour and per-job productivity.
> There is a need for revised statistical provision over time. It is a high
> priority to have indicators that adequately reflect the role of part-time
> work.
>
> Discussant: Rhys Herbert, Office for National Statistics
>
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> [Wendy Olsen has added some detail to this summary:
>
> The UK government has made a commitment to gender mainstreaming, and it
> recognises the improvements such an approach can bring to policy-making.
> On
> behalf of the Women's Budget Group (WBG), I became involved in the debate
> over the statistical databases underlying estimates of productivity. The
> WBG has a particular interest in the UK's statistical provision. The
> international systems of national accounts have changed, making Gross
> Value
> Added much more central to the calculation of national output for each
> year.
> Current ONS statistics in the area of GVA are available at national level
> up
> to 2001 and at regional level up to 2000. Forecasts are being used
> for the more recent years and these are not data but projections. By
> contrast ONS keeps the national accounts for recent quarters and years
> easily accessible. Per-hour measures of GVA, not just per-job measures,
> are
> needed from central (ONS) sources. The talk will concentrate on three
> dimensions of the problem. 1) The meaning of productivity, and its
> measurement, under the GVA system. 2) the data currently available,
> informing listeners of the UK vs. other countries' performance in per-hour
> and per-job productivity. 3) The need for revised statistical provision
> at
> Region and Sector level over time.]
>
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