The Federal Productivity Measurement Program: final results (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, May 1997

The Federal Productivity Measurement Program: final results

Donald Fisk
Economist, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Darlene Forte
Economist, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics

For more than two decades, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had collected, analyzed, and published data on labor productivity in the Federal Government. Due to budgetary constraints, the Federal Productivity Measurement Program has been terminated. This article presents some of the statistics produced by the program during the 27 years of its operation. It provides a brief history and explains conceptual underpinnings of the program. Results from the program show a small, but steady increase in output per employee year in the Federal Government from 1967 to 1994, with the rate slowing somewhat after 1982.

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