"Figure 1: Productivity falls in Quarter 2 2019 when compared with the same quarter of the previous year","" "Public service productivity, inputs and output, quarter-on-same-quarter-a-year-ago growth rates, UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017 to Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Data are from this Experimental quarterly release. 2. Experimental quarterly estimates of productivity are indirectly seasonally adjusted, calculated using seasonally adjusted inputs and seasonally adjusted output. 3. Growth rates have been expressed in (natural) logarithm changes such that output growth and (inverted) input growth can be added to exactly equal changes in productivity. Further information on log changes can be found in [Section 3 of A simple guide to multi-factor productivity](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/productivitymeasures/methodologies/asimpleguidetomultifactorproductivity#quality-adjusted-labour-input). " "Unit","Natural logarithm change (percentage)" "","" "","Inputs (inverted)","Output","Productivity" "2017Q1","1.3","0.2","1.5" "2017Q2","1.3","0","1.3" "2017Q3","0.8","0.3","1.1" "2017Q4","0.4","0.5","0.9" "2018Q1","1.5","0","1.5" "2018Q2","-0.6","0.2","-0.3" "2018Q3","-0.8","0.1","-0.7" "2018Q4","-1.3","1.4","0.1" "2019Q1","-4","2.8","-1.2" "2019Q2","-4.1","3.8","-0.3"