December 1, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Third quarter 2011 productivity growth revised downward

Previous and revised productivity and related measures, nonfarm business, third quarter 2011 (quarterly percent change at seasonally adjusted annual rates)
Measure	Quarterly percent change at annual rate
Measure	Previous	Revised
Productivity (Output per hour)	3.1	2.3
Output	3.8	3.2
Hours	0.6	0.8
Unit labor costs	-2.4	-2.5

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