IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/ecolmr/v1y2007i7p22-26.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Following the Atkinson Review: the quality of public sector output

Author

Listed:
  • Martin Weale

    (National Institute of Economic and Social Research)

Abstract

Addresses two of the key issues raised by the Atkinson Review: quality adjustment and the use of value weights.The UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity has made substantial progress in the measurement of public service output and inputs, publishing a series of productivity articles, but inevitably there is room for more work,particularly in the measurement of the quality of both outputs and inputs.This article addresses two of the key issues raised by the Atkinson Review – quality adjustment and the use of value weights. The benefit of addressing quality issues in the context of conventional index number formulae is shown. Thisleads to smaller quality adjustments than some past work on public sector output has suggested. It is demonstrated that, without the use of value weights, it is not always possible to make quality adjustments. Nevertheless, where value weights cannot be based on marketinformation, they may be difficult to identify and care will be needed in identifying changes to relative values. Economic & Labour Market Review (2007) [1], 22–26; doi:10.1057/palgrave.elmr.1410104

Suggested Citation

  • Martin Weale, 2007. "Following the Atkinson Review: the quality of public sector output," Economic & Labour Market Review, Palgrave Macmillan;Office for National Statistics, vol. 1(7), pages 22-26, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:ecolmr:v:1:y:2007:i:7:p:22-26
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/elmr/journal/v1/n7/pdf/1410104a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/elmr/journal/v1/n7/full/1410104a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Andrew Leigh & Chris Ryan, 2011. "Long-Run Trends in School Productivity: Evidence from Australia," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 6(1), pages 105-135, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:ecolmr:v:1:y:2007:i:7:p:22-26. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.