EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts: July 2018 Release
Statistical Module, ESA 2010 and ISIC Rev. 4 industry classification
All series derived from this database need to be referred to as follows:
Bart van Ark and Kirsten Jäger (2017), Recent Trends in Europe's Output and Productivity Growth Performance at the Sector Level, 2002-2015, International Productivity Monitor, Number 33, Fall 2017.
For a summary overview of the methodology and construction of the EU KLEMS database, see: Kirsten Jäger (The Conference Board) EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts 2017 release - Description of Methodology and General Notes, September 2017, Revised July 2018
Introduction
The series presented on this page constitute the second of two updates of the EU KLEMS Productivity and Growth Accounts on industry level in 2016 and 2017. With the current release, the 2016 release has been extended to include all individual EU-28 countries, several EU aggregates, and the United States. In July 2018 the 2017 EU KLEMS release has been updated with some minor revisions. An overview of these revisions can be found in the following document:
Revisions to the 2017 release of EU KLEMS, July 2018
Concepts and methodologies to calculate the various growth and productivity variables in the 2016 and 2017 EU KLEMS releases were adjusted to the new European System of National Accounts (ESA 2010). The 2017 release has a number of new features:
Time period: 1995-2015 for most countries and industries. See country notes for deviations.
The data on output, value added and employment is consistent with official statistics as available from Eurostat at the corresponding industry levels. See country notes for deviations.
The asset types were modified and extended according to the ESA 2010 requirements.
The data on gross fixed capital formation, prices, and capital stocks is consistent with Eurostat at the corresponding industry levels. See country notes for deviations. As assumptions with regard to depreciation patterns differ between the official estimates, the capital services measures are not fully harmonized as in earlier modules of EU KLEMS.
For labour services use has been made of the micro-data from the European Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) for recent years.
Growth accounts have not been calculated for Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Euro Area, EU-15, and EU-28 due to substantial gaps in capital data.
Sources and methods
The EU KLEMS updates in the new ISIC Rev. 4 industry classification are provided on a country by country basis. Documentation is provided separately for each country and release.
More information on additional EU KLEMS releases can be found on the website of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
The original website of the EU KLEMS project, on which these data were first released, has been archived, but is still available through the Internet Archive.
This update of the EU KLEMS database has been funded by the European Commission under the service contract ECFIN-163-2015/SI2.716986 for the 'Provision of updated EU KLEMS-type data for growth and productivity analysis'. Any errors or omissions are entirely the responsibility of The Conference Board.
