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The difficulties of capturing productivity improvements

Recent methodological changes by the UK statistics body highlight the difficulties of capturing productivity improvements in official economic data. Although the revisions will make only a small improvement to the UK’s productivity picture, they support our optimism that there are productivity gains yet to be measured or realised from the technological developments of recent years.

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