the national institute sectoral productivity database sources and methods may 1999 1 general remarks sector data coverage these series are constructed to allow a comprehensive study of trends in by for five major industrial economies united states kingdom france germany japan plan was provide annual post war period from 1950 1995 96 as many sectors variables included set real output persons engaged average hours worked labour capital input force skills s share value added generally observations 1996 relative levels intensity given single year 1993 thus sufficient information exists dataset researcher calculate joint factor growth rates or unit costs using formulae parts i ii each countries were ten broad comprising agriculture forestry & fishing 2 mining extraction oil refining 3 utilities 4 manufacturing 5
