TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bartelsman,Eric J.
AU  - Gray,Wayne
TI  - The NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 205
PY  - 1996
Y2  - October 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0205
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0205.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Eric Bartlesman
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tinbergen Institute
E-Mail: ebartelsman@alum.mit.edu

Wayne B. Gray
Department of Economics
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Tel: 508/793-7693
Fax: 508/793-8849
E-Mail: WGRAY@CLARKU.EDU
AB  - 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.
ER  -