Methodology related to public services productivity

  • Improved methods for total public service productivity: total, UK, 2021

    Methodology | Released on 8 March 2024

    Explaining data and methodological improvements to education and healthcare inputs, output and quality adjustment, used in the upcoming public service productivity article.

    Keywords: public sector, efficiency, healthcare, education, review

  • Public service productivity: total, UK QMI

    Methodology | Released on 17 November 2023

    Quality and Methodology Information for the Public service productivity releases: strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

    Keywords: data quality, public sector, output, healthcare, education

  • Sources and methods for public service productivity estimates

    Methodology | Released on 11 May 2022

    Sources and methods information for the Public service productivity: total, UK publication, detailing the main concepts, output and inputs measures by service area.

    Keywords: source, methods, public service productivity, inputs, output

  • Improved methods for total public service productivity: total, UK, 2019

    Methodology | Released on 20 January 2022

    Explaining methodological improvements to education quality adjustment, children’s social care, and healthcare output, used in the upcoming public service productivity article.

    Keywords: healthcare, education, public service, attainment, disadvantaged, casemix, CSC

  • Improved methods for total public service productivity: total, UK, 2018

    Methodology | Released on 1 April 2021

    Explaining methodological improvements to education quality adjustment, healthcare, adult social care, education and police inputs, and the National Accounts data source used in the upcoming Public service productivity article.

    Keywords: productivity, education, healthcare, public services

  • Public service productivity estimates: healthcare QMI

    Methodology | Released on 2 February 2021

    Quality and Methodology Information for Public service productivity: healthcare, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

    Keywords: healthcare productivity, hospital and community health services, family health services, GPs, outputs, inputs

  • Methodological developments to public service productivity, healthcare: 2021 update

    Methodology | Released on 18 January 2021

    Methodological changes to public service healthcare productivity, including improved measures of primary care output.

    Keywords: dental, gp, primary, output, NHS

  • How to compare and interpret ONS productivity measures

    Methodology | Released on 11 May 2020

    Explains how to compare and understand the three measures of productivity produced by the ONS, especially public service productivity, with details on inputs, output and coverage.

    Keywords: Solow residual, quality, market, non-market, measurement, non-market, quality, solow residual

  • Public service productivity: adult social care QMI

    Methodology | Released on 5 February 2020

    Quality and Methodology Information for Public service productivity: adult social care, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used and data uses and users.

    Keywords: efficiency, ASC, residential, services, methodology

  • Methodological developments to public service productivity: healthcare, 2020 update

    Methodology | Released on 16 December 2019

    This article outlines planned methodological changes to the measures published in public service productivity: healthcare, which we intend to incorporate in our release in January 2020.

    Keywords: NHS, output, inputs, , efficiency, changes