/A^Sfíd MEASUREMENT OF U.S. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: A Review of Current Statistics and Proposals for Change
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This report reviews the concept and measurement of agricultural productivity with special references to USDA multifactor productivity statistics. An American Agricultural Economics Association task force has examined the sources and procedures used in constructing the existing statistics and recommends that USDA: (1) place greater emphasis on improving methodology; (2) move further toward a complete factor productivity measure; (3) replace the requirements approach by direct sampling in constructing the labor input; (4) use the product approach in defining the agricultural sector; (5) improve accounting for quality change in inputs; and (6) adopt a series of specific improvements for constructing specific inputs and aggregating procedures.
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