A Note on Recently Revised Data and New Estimates of the Canada-U.S. Productivity and Income Gaps
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Sharpe, Andrew. 2002. “A Note on Recently Revised Data and New Estimates of the Canada-U.S. Productivity and Income Gaps.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 4 (Spring 2002): 13–16. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/issue-4/a-note-on-recently-revised-data-and-new-estimates-of-the-canada-u-s-productivity-and-income-gaps/
Abstract
This note updates the productivity and income gap estimates from the accompanying article (IPM-4-1) following Statistics Canada’s May 2002 national accounts revision and minor U.S. data revisions. The revisions narrow the estimated Canada-U.S. gaps slightly: Canada’s GDP per worker fell from 86.6 to 80.2 per cent of U.S. levels over 1989–2001, and GDP per hour from 85.3 to 81.1 per cent. Updated appendix tables from the main article are included.