The NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database

Eric J. Bartelsman, Wayne Gray

NBER Technical Working Paper No. 205
Issued in October 1996
NBER Program(s):   PR

This paper provides technical documentation to accompany the NBER manufacturing productivity (MP) database. The database contains information on 450 4-digit manufacturing industries for the period 1958 through 1991. The data are compiled from various official sources, most notably the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Census of Manufactures. Also provided are estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for each industry. The paper further discusses alternate methods of deflation and aggregation and their impact on TFP calculations.

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