A Non-Technical Report on Challenges for Statistics in Measuring New Growth Determinants (D1.4)
Analysis of the role of key factors for productivity growth is dependent on data and measurement. This paper focuses on the role of four factors that have a central and growing role for productivity growth, and available data sources that have been used to measure them.
These four determinants are:
- global value chains;
- ageing;
- new technologies (digitalization, ICT, other I4 technologies);
- and firm size, market entry and growth.
The paper reviews the potential of different data sources at the macro, industry and firm levels.
Summary of available data sources to measure new growth determinants
| Macro level | Industry level | Firm level | |
| Global value chains | Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Database IDE-JETRO Asian Input-Output Tables, World Input-Output Database, EXIOBASE, Eora Database, OECD Inter-Country Input-Output) Tables (TiVA) |
Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Database IDE-JETRO Asian Input-Output Tables, World Input-Output Database, EXIOBASE, Eora Database, OECD Inter-Country Input-Output) Tables (TiVA) |
Firm financial statements data, data on import and export |
| Ageing | Eurostat national accounts data combined with the data on share of age-specific labour force EU KLEMS database Quality Adjusted Labour Input (QALI) NTA dataset |
EU KLEMS database | Matched employer-employee datasets European Structure of Earnings Survey |
| New technologies (digitalization, ICT, other I4 technologies) | EU Klems Eurostat International Federation of Robotics dataset OECD Statistics |
EU Klems Eurostat International Federation of Robotics dataset European Manufacturing Survey |
Eurostat survey data European Manufacturing Survey |
| Firm size, market entry and growth | Eurostat – Structural business (Size class analysis) | Eurostat Structural business (Size class analysis) CompNet database Possible calculation from micro-level data |
Amadeus dataset OECD firm-level project CompNet database Possible calculation from micro-level data |
Source: Table 4 in Redek et al. (2019) A Non-Technical Report on Challenges for Statistics in Measuring New Growth Determinants.