Productivity Hub

 

Goal

Understanding and improving productivity is a big job. The Productivity Hub is a space where researchers, policy-makers and others can come together to learn, discuss and collaborate.

The idea of this site is to bring together people working on it so we can gain some economies of scale and scope, and to become more productive in our analysis to increase the productivity of the nation. Although led by the Government Economics Network and the New Zealand Productivity Commission, it is supported by a range of public sector organisations. They all have an interest in increasing our understanding and improving productivity.

The leaders of the research functions of these organisations meet in the Research Leaders Group. Those interested in productivity related research come together at our Sausage Roll Seminars to hear about the latest research. Researchers who are interested in using Statistics New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database can find about it here. If you are not a user of the data, but are interested in the research that has been produced using it, you can go to our cunningly-titled Research Using the LBD page.

How to use this site

We have endeavoured to make this site as easy to navigate as possible. At the bottom of this page are several ways to navigate: a high-level and a more-detailed Site Map and an index of all the pages on the space. To the left of page is a hierarchical menu. If a page has a chevron > next to it, it has sub pages. You can click on the chevron to open a list of these. To the right of most papes, there will be links to useful things, such as related papers, other websites or pages within the Hub.

At the bottom of pages there are comment sections, for you to ask questions and make suggestions. Please respect other users of the site. This is not a discussion board. If you are not sure how to conduct yourself, check out GEN’s Code of Conduct.

And remember:

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything

Paul Krugman, The Age of Diminished Expectations.

 

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Page: 01. First RLG meeting, 14 June 2022
Attendees Philip Stevens; Phil Mellor (MFAT); Gillian Thornton (MBIE); Patrick Nolan (Treasury); Andrew Webber (SWA) Apologies: Peter Nunns (NZIC); Vij Kooyela (TPK) Agenda What Who 1. Welcome and introductions All 2. What are we doing? image-20220729-000
Page: 02. Second RLG meeting, 16 August 2022
Attendees Philip Stevens; Phil Mellor (MFAT); Peter Nunns (NZIC); Vij Kooyela (TPK); Patrick Nolan (Treasury); Andrew Webber (SWA); Louise Pirini (SWA); Peter Campion (MBIE) Apologies: Gillian Thornton (MBIE); Agenda What Who 1. Welcome and introducti
Page: 03. Third RLG meeting, 15 December 2022
Using the IDI and LBD to produce evidence based insights for policy and society. Discussion with Prof Julia Lane The final Productivity Hub Research Leaders Group meeting will be on the subject of Using the IDI and LBD to produce evidence based insights f

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Page: Agricultural Production Survey/Census (APS)
The Agricultural Production Statistics is a large-scale survey programme providing statistics on agricultural and forestry activity in New Zealand. The surveys collect information on livestock numbers, arable farming, horticulture and land use activities

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Page: BOS Data Appendix from Mok et al
To aid researchers new to the Business Operations Survey, we include here the data appendix from A Good Worker is Hard to Find: Skills Shortages in New Zealand Firms https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254448872_A_Good_Worker_is_Hard_to_Find_Skills_S
Page: Bringing it all together
image-20210812-000853.png The first thing to do when using the LBD or IDI for analysis, is to bring together various items of data, organised by a small number of key variables, like the firms and years. Of course, nothing in life is simple, so sometimes
Page: Business Operations Survey (BOS)
The BOS is an annual three (sometimes four) part modular survey, which began in 2005. The first module is focussed on firm characteristics and performance. The second module alternates between biennial modules on innovation and business use of ICT. The th

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Page: Capital
Productivity factory - Capital.png Capital input comes from two sources: Statistics New Zealand’s Annual Enterprise Survey (AES) and the Financial statements summary - IR10 submissions to Inland Revenue. The former is a collection designed to support the

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Page: Employee (IR348-EMS) and Individual Tax Returns (IR3, IR7, IR4S)
Purpose Detailed employment data in the LBD is sourced from IR data, collected as part of the tax administration system. Until 2015, these were processed by Statistics NZ and provided to researchers in the LBD as aggregated firm-level employment data, gen

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Page: Financial statements summary (IR10)
The Financial statements summary - IR10 form collects information for statistical purposes. Inland Revenue use this information to evaluate tax compliance risk, to inform policy and for strategic research, and provides it to Stats NZ for the production of
Page: From data to analysis
image-20210804-033436.png In these pages we look at what one needs to do to get from the raw data in the LBD and use it to measure economic concepts and use those in analysis. Often there are multiple ways to measure the same thing, some are better than o

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Page: Goods and services tax (GST) returns
Goods and services tax (GST) returns are collected by Inland Revenue on a monthly, bi-monthly, or six-monthly basis depending on the size of the firm. The GST data collected have very broad coverage and non-compliance is low, so are often treated as full

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Page: Intermediate consumption and Gross Output
Productivity factory - Intermiates and Output.png Gross output Gross output measures are taken directly from AES https://nzproductivity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PH/pages/295162/The+Annual+Enterprise+Survey+AES, and combined with an adjusted measure from
Page: International Trade in Services and Royalties Survey/Census (ITSS)
image-20220721-233841.png The purpose of the ITSS is to collect information on international trade in selected services and royalties. This information is used in compiling Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics, which are a record of New Zealand’s internat
Page: Introduction to the LBD
The Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) is an anonymised dataset created by bringing together a range of survey and administrative data. The LBD includes information from tax and survey-based financial data, merchandise and services trade data and a vari

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Page: Labour input
Productivity factory - Labour.png The main source for information on Labour input in the LBD/IDI is the IR 348 Employer Monthly Schedule https://nzproductivity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PH/pages/65939. This is a monthly tax return filed by employers, whic
Page: Labour Tables
Each year, Richard Fabling produces the “labour and productivity tables”. The latest labour tables were released in December 2022. The productivity data will be updated once the current LBD refresh is finished. The latest labour tables use the current (20
Page: Longitudinal Business Database
The Longitudinal Business Database (or LBD) is our core resource for understanding the behaviour and performance of New Zealand firms. It is a collection of administrative and survey data, brought together by Stats NZ in the DataLab. image-20210616-233145
Page: Longitudinal Business Frame (LBF)
The Longitudinal Business Frame (LBF) is a longitudinal representation of the Business Register (BR) {previously the Business Frame, or BF} – the primary sampling frame used by Stats NZ. The LBF forms the backbone of the LBD, to which all other firm-level

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Page: Measuring Productivity
Productivity factory.png Once you have a good idea of how many people work for a firm, a natural next step is to think about what those people are able to produce. Measuring productivity in the LBD is complicated by the need to pull together multiple dat

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Home page: Productivity Hub
Goal Understanding and improving productivity is a big job. The Productivity Hub is a space where researchers, policy-makers and others can come together to learn, discuss and collaborate. The idea of this site is to bring together people working on it so

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Page: Quarterly and Annual International Investment Surveys (QIIS/AIIS)
image-20220721-234817.pngimage-20220721-235045.png The QIIS and AIIS surveys are used to estimate the International Investment Position (IIP) and Balance of Payments (BoP). The IIP is New Zealand’s balance sheet with the rest of the world, and includes me

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Page: Research and Development Survey
image-20220721-230730.png Research and development (R&D) statistics include the level of research and development activity, and related employment and expenditure across all sectors of the New Zealand economy. Purpose The Research and Development (R&D) Su
Page: Research Leaders Group
20-lightbulb-blue-20141124-033635.jpg One of the core activities of the Productivity Hub is to bring together researcher leaders from across the government sector to ensure the whole is greater than the sum of the parts - to maximise our productivity! ima
Page: Research using the LBD
image-20210618-034020.png Here we bring together papers using the LBD. There have been many going before us, putting in the hard mahi. Make sure you read how people have dealt with the data, and why they have made their choices. I have divided the list in

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Page: Sausage Roll Seminars
Sausage roll series.png The Sausage Roll seminars are an opportunity to share and discuss policy-relevant research. We aim for work that is “about 70% finished”. This means that it is early enough for suggestions made to feed back into the research (rathe

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Page: The Annual Enterprise Survey (AES)
The Annual Enterprise Survey (AES) is designed by StatsNZ to support the construction of the national accounts (e.g. GDP). Its name is a slight misnomer, as only some of the data reported in the AES dataset in the LBD come a survey (actually, many surveys

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Page: Underlying Datasets
image-20210616-233509.png The LBD is not so much a dataset as a collection of datasets; a complex, relational dataset, if you will (or even if you won’t). Here you’ll find links to pages describing the individual parts of the LBD and specific individual-l
Page: Units of observation
The basic unit of observation is the enterprise. This roughly corresponds to the economic concept of the firm. Below that are ‘Kind of Activity Units’ (KAU) and Geographic Units (GEOs). KAUs are less relevant to the LBD. They are units which engage in one

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Page: Work in progress
Paper Author Drafts Code Growth paper Scarring paper L Sanderson Sanderson_Born_bad_2024_Website.tex https://www.dropbox.com/preview/From%20NZPC%202024/Scarring%20paperDONE/Sanderson_Born_bad_2024_Website.tex?context=standalone_preview&role=personal 000_S

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