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Productivity and related measures, by business sector (quarterly)

  Labour produc-
tivity
Real output Hours worked Average hours All jobs Hourly compen-
sation
Unit labour cost
  % change from previous year
1999 3.3 6.9 3.5 0.2 3.4 2.6 -0.6
2000 3.6 6.4 2.5 -0.3 2.8 5.9 2.1
2001 1.7 1.7 0.1 -0.7 0.7 4.0 2.4
2002 2.5 3.6 1.1 -1.1 2.3 2.1 -0.4
2003 0.2 1.7 1.5 -0.4 2.0 1.5 1.2
  % change from previous quarter, seasonally adjusted
1st quarter 2002 0.9 1.7 0.8 -0.3 1.2 1.4 0.5
2nd quarter 2002 0.4 1.1 0.6 -0.4 1.0 -0.2 -0.7
3rd quarter 2002 0.1 0.9 0.8 0.0 0.8 -0.2 -0.2
4th quarter 2002 -0.6 0.3 0.9 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.7
1st quarter 2003 0.5 0.7 0.2 -0.1 0.3 1.1 0.5
2nd quarter 2003 -0.1 -0.5 -0.4 -0.2 -0.1 0.3 0.5
3rd quarter 2003 0.1 0.3 0.2 -0.1 0.3 0.5 0.4
4th quarter 2003 -0.3 0.9 1.1 0.1 1.0 -0.2 0.1
1st quarter 2004 0.1 0.6 0.5 0.6 -0.1 0.6 0.5
2nd quarter 2004 0.2 1.2 1.1 0.3 0.7 0.2 0.0
3rd quarter 2004 -0.3 0.7 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.0 0.3
  % change from same quarter of previous year, seasonally adjusted
1st quarter 2002 3.5 2.5 -0.9 -1.4 0.5 3.7 0.2
2nd quarter 2002 3.5 3.5 0.1 -1.7 1.7 2.8 -0.6
3rd quarter 2002 2.6 4.8 2.2 -0.8 3.0 1.1 -1.4
4th quarter 2002 0.8 4.0 3.2 -0.7 3.9 1.0 0.3
1st quarter 2003 0.4 3.0 2.6 -0.5 3.0 0.8 0.3
2nd quarter 2003 -0.1 1.4 1.5 -0.3 1.9 1.3 1.4
3rd quarter 2003 -0.1 0.9 0.9 -0.4 1.3 1.9 2.0
4th quarter 2003 0.3 1.4 1.1 -0.3 1.5 1.8 1.4
1st quarter 2004 -0.2 1.3 1.4 0.4 1.1 1.2 1.4
2nd quarter 2004 0.1 3.0 2.9 0.9 1.9 1.1 0.9
3rd quarter 2004 -0.3 3.4 3.6 1.4 2.2 0.6 0.8
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 383-0008.
Last modified: 2004-12-10.

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