Labour Productivity Measures - National (Quarterly) (LPM)

Unit non-labour payments of economy, index

Unit non-labour payments measures the cost of non-labour items such as depreciation, rent, interest and indirect business tax. Also corporate profits and profit-type income of owner/partners.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Index using the value of a base year made equal to 100