--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-36/toward-a-global-integrated-industry-level-production-account-a-proposal/" title: "Toward a Global Integrated Industry-level Production Account: A Proposal" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T07:52:47+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T07:52:47+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Spring 2019" ipm_keyword: - "BEA" - "competitiveness" - "global production account" - "industry-level" - "KLEMS" - "PPP" - "TFP" - "world economy" - "world input-output" ipm_research_theme: - "Measurement and methodology" ipm_country_focus: - "Global" - "International" - "United States" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # Toward a Global Integrated Industry-level Production Account: A Proposal Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-36/toward-a-global-integrated-industry-level-production-account-a-proposal/ # Toward a Global Integrated Industry-level Production Account: A Proposal [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-36-2-Samuels-Strassner.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Samuels, Jon, and Erich Strassner. 2019. “Toward a Global Integrated Industry-level Production Account: A Proposal.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 36 (Spring 2019): 7–33. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-36/toward-a-global-integrated-industry-level-production-account-a-proposal/ ## Authors: - Jon Samuels U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis - Erich Strassner U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis ## IPM Issue 36 Spring 2019 pp. 7–33 ## Related IPM articles [Efficiency Adjustment of Hours Worked: Two Possible Modifications of a Jorgensen Production Model Barbara Fraumeni Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 103–115](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/efficiency-adjustment-of-hours-worked-two-possible-modifications-of-a-jorgensen-production-model/) [Labour Productivity as a Measure of Technological Change Ulrich Kohli Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 64–81](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/labour-productivity-as-a-measure-of-technological-change/) [The Relationship between Efficiencies Defenses for Mergers and TFP Growth Robin Shaban Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 82–102](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/the-relationship-between-efficiencies-defenses-for-mergers-and-tfp-growth/) [IPM Issue 49 Editors’ Overview Andrew Sharpe, Bart van Ark, Paul Schreyer Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 1–2](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/) [The UK Productivity Slowdown: A Review of Timing, Magnitude, and Drivers Josh Martin Spring 2025 | IPM Issue 48 | pp. 1–34](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-48/the-uk-productivity-slowdown-a-review-of-timing-magnitude-and-drivers/) [Appendix: UK Productivity Growth Rates Across Data Vintages and Studies Josh Martin Spring 2025 | IPM Issue 48 | pp. 65–73](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-48/appendix-uk-productivity-growth-rates-across-data-vintages-and-studies/) [Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence for Productivity Francesco Filippucci, Peter Gal, Katharina Laengle, Matthias Schief, Filiz Unsal Spring 2025 | IPM Issue 48 | pp. 1–26](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-48/opportunities-and-risks-of-artificial-intelligence-for-productivity/) [Cracking the Productivity Code: An International Comparison of UK Productivity John Van Reenen, Xuyi Yang Spring 2024 | IPM Issue 46 | pp. 60–82](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-46/cracking-the-productivity-code-an-international-comparison-of-uk-productivity/) [Appendix: EUKLEMS & INTANProd Industry Coverage and Intangible Asset Treatment Filippo Bontadini, Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Massimiliano Iommi, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Tsutomu Miyagawa Spring 2024 | IPM Issue 46 | pp. 1–4](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-46/appendix-euklems-intanprod-industry-coverage-and-intangible-asset-treatment/) [Intangible Capital, TFP Growth and Green Shoots in New Productivity Data Filippo Bontadini, Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Massimiliano Iommi, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Tsutomu Miyagawa Spring 2024 | IPM Issue 46 | pp. 3–37](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-46/intangible-capital-tfp-growth-and-green-shoots-in-new-productivity-data/) ## Abstract ## Résumé EN FR Copy link Email LinkedIn This article develops the framework for a global production account. We describe the relationship between existing KLEMS approaches and databases, international guidelines on GDP and productivity measurement, and our proposal toward a global integrated production account. The key feature of the account is an integrated world input-output table in current and constant prices, augmented with constant quality prices and quantities for primary factor inputs by industry, all converted with conceptually appropriate purchasing power parities. Uses of the framework include: 1) industry and country-level contributions to world economic growth, 2) price level indexes that serve as measures of industry-level competitiveness across countries, 3) total factor productivity level comparisons at the industry level, and 4) global production chain analysis. None of these are applications are currently possible with existing country-industry-level KLEMS databases. Cet article développe le cadre d’un compte de production mondial. Nous décrivons la relation entre les approches et bases de données KLEMS existantes, les lignes directrices internationales sur la mesure du PIB et de la productivité, et notre proposition vers un compte de production mondial intégré. La caractéristique principale du compte est un tableau mondial des entrées-sorties en prix courants et constants, augmenté de prix et de quantités à qualité constante pour les intrants de facteurs primaires par industrie, tous convertis avec des parités de pouvoir d’achat conceptuellement appropriées. Les applications du cadre comprennent : les contributions au niveau industriel et national à la croissance économique mondiale, les indices de niveau de prix servant de mesures de la compétitivité industrielle, les comparaisons du niveau de PMF totale au niveau industriel et l’analyse des chaînes de production mondiales. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-36-2-Samuels-Strassner.pdf)