GGDC Data SeriesThis website of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre presents series on measures of economic performance, which have been constructed at the GGDC, partly in co-operation with other research institutes, and which have been used by various GGDC researchers in their work (see GGDC list of publications). Since 1997, The Conference Board has sponsored the GGDC to keep the series up-to-date and expand these in various directions. For example, our labour productivity numbers for the total economy are published in a annual Productivity Report done jointly with The Conference Board. Since 2001 we have also received funding from the European Commission to extend our data work, partly in co-operation with the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Amongst other things this has resulted in an extensive report on productivity at the industry level, by Mary O'Mahony and Bart van Ark, EU Productivity and Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective Can Europe Resume the Catching-up Process? (O'Mahony and van Ark, eds., Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2003)Our databases are grouped into two categories. Four of our data sets, including the labour productivity estimates in the Total Economy Database, the 60-Industry Database, the Total Economy Growth Accounting and the Industry Growth Accounting Database are part of our regularly updated databases. Databases that underly specific studies or papers but and are not (yet) regularly updated are presented under Other databases Regularly updated databasesThe up-to-date GGDC data series consist of the:
The Total Economy Database contains series on levels of real GDP, population, employment, working hours, GDP per capita, GDP per person engaged and GDP per hour for the aggregate economy for up to 125 countries from 1950 to present. These countries represent about 96 per cent of the world population and, as in particular the smaller and poorer countries are not in the data base, the sample represents an even larger share of world GDP (99%). Our planning schedule is to provide updates twice a year, i.e. at beginning of the year (January/February) and in the summer period (July/August). For 2007 the update at the beginning of the year coincides with the publication of the Conference Board, Performance 2007. The 60-Industry Database contains data on value added at constant and current prices, persons engaged, employees, hours and compensation for (at most) 60 industries covering the total economy. The database has once been set up as the the Industry Labour Productivity Database for the European Commission, but has been extended with non-EU countries and is updated regularly. For most countries, the period from 1979 to 2003 is covered. The GGDC 10-Sector Database presents a panel data set with annual time series of value added and persons employed for ten sectors of the economy. The database allows for consistent comparisons of output, employment and productivity trends in nineteen developing countries in Asia and Latin America during the period 1950-2005. It is based on an in-depth country-by-country study of available statistics to ensure consistency over time, across countries and across variables. These data are developed as part of ongoing research at the GGDC. The data are regularly updated. The GGDC Total Economy Growth Accounting Database has been set up to assess the impact of IT on aggregate economic growth performance in the European Union and the United States. It contains data on gross fixed capital formation at constant and current prices for six assets types, including three IT assets (computers, communication equipment and software), together with growth rates of capital stocks and services. Total factor productivity growth is derived by combining the capital input data with growth in output and labour input in a growth accounting framework. The database covers all countries from the EU-15, an aggregate for the European Union and the United States for the period 1980-2004. For the Industry Growth Accounting Database, data on labour skills (three categories) and investment and capital services (3 ICT asset categories and 3 non-ICT categories) have been constructed for Australia, Canada, the US and 4 European countries (France, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK) in addition to the output and labour input estimates from the 60-industry Database. This allows for a decomposition of output growth into into the contributions of labour and capital, and total factor productivity using the growth accounting methodology. Other databasesThe databases below are not (yet) updated regularly: The ICOP Industry Database provides estimates of comparative productivity levels by industry, which are compiled within the framework of the International Comparisons of Output and Productivity project. This database contains a section based on 1997 unit value ratios (also published on the O'Mahony and van Ark CD-ROM 2003 as the Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labour Cost Database) for 20 manufacturing industries for 14 countries in the European Union and the United States for the period 1979-2001. A larger countryset of approximately 30 countries is based on 1987 unit value ratios, providing annual series from 1950-2000 for manufacturing. Estimates for retail and wholesale trade and transport and communication are available from a regular publication of the International Labour Office (ILO), called Key Indicators of the Labour Market Third Edition. The SIID Database contains internationally comparable indicators which measure innovation in services. Various thematic and policy-oriented studies on services innovation can be carried out using this database. |
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