DiSP:  Dispersion Statistics on Productivity

September 2022

The U.S. Census Bureau reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and 
approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release.
DMS Project Number: P-7526913
DRB Approval ID: CBDRB-FY22-301	

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'.