Statistics: Rural productivity

Productivity measures are often used to indicate how well a country can use its human and physical resources to generate economic growth. Strong economic growth will generally mean an improvement in living standards. However, productivity alone does not tell us everything about the economic wellbeing of different areas. The potential of any given place depends on the mix of industries, the infrastructure and the size of settlements there. Based on these circumstances, even an area with low productivity might be performing as well as it can.

Gross value added (GVA) measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector. Simplistically it is the value of the amount of goods and services that have been produced, less the cost of all inputs and raw materials that are directly attributable to that production.

Metadata

Data source: Office for National Statistics

Indicators:

• gross value added (GVA) per job
• gross value added (GVA) by broad industrial sector
• gross value added (GVA) for tourism related industries

Coverage: England

Rural definition used: Local Authority Rural-Urban Classification; NUTS3 and NUTS4 Rural-Urban Classification

Next release date: analysis of 2011 data to be published January 2014

Rural statistics local level data on tourism GVA by rural-urban Local Authority classification, by region and local authority can be found here.