DiSP:  Dispersion Statistics on Productivity

September 2024

The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance 
protection of the confidential source data.
(Project No. P-7526913, Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number: CBDRB-FY24-0303)

The CSV files contain within-industry dispersion statistics for the variable indicated in the file name:
output_per_hour.csv		Output per hour           (activity weights: total hours);
total_factor_productivity.csv	Total factor productivity  (activity weights: cost-share-based input index);

Variable names in csv files:
naics4 - 4-digit industry identifier
year   - time identifier
sd     - standard deviation
d7525  - difference between the 75th and 25th percentile of the within-industry distribution of the natural log of productivity in a given year
d9010  - difference between the 90th and 10th percentile of the within-industry distribution of the natural log of productivity in a given year
d1001  - difference between the 10th and 1st percentile of the within-industry distribution of the natural log of productivity in a given year
d9990  - difference between the 99th and 90th percentile of the within-industry distribution of the natural log of productivity in a given year
*      - activity weighted dispersion, where the weight is defined by the denominator of the productivity indicator

Note: Cells with identified data quality concerns are suppressed with a publication flag ‘S’.