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EU KLEMS

Growth and Productivity Accounts
EU KLEMS

The EU KLEMS database provides measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all European Union member states from 1970 onwards. The database provides an important input to policy evaluation, in particular for the assessment of the goals concerning competitiveness and economic growth potential as established by the Lisbon and Barcelona summit goals.

Overview EU KLEMS releases

Release
ISIC / SNA version
*Data Coverage
Constructed by
ISIC Rev. 4 / SNA08 (NACE 2 / ESA 2010)
1995-2020
40 industries
30 countries
February 2021 Release
ISIC Rev. 4 / SNA08 (NACE 2 / ESA 2010)
1995-2019
40 industries
30 countries

November 2019 Release

ISIC Rev. 4 / SNA08 (NACE 2 / ESA 2010)

1995-2017
40 industries
30 countries

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)

July 2018 Release
DOI: 10.34894/6GDD7Q

ISIC Rev. 4 / SNA08 (NACE 2 / ESA 2010)

1995-2015
34 industries
29 countries

The Conference Board (TCB)

December 2016 Release
DOI: 10.34894/8ZJB7D

ISIC Rev. 4 / SNA08 (NACE 2 / ESA 2010)

1995-2014
34 industries
10 countries

The Conference Board (TCB)

October 2012 Release

ISIC Rev. 4 / SNA93 (NACE 2 / ESA 1995)

1970-2011
34 industries
12 countries

EU KLEMS consortium
March 2011 update

ISIC Rev. 3 / SNA93 (NACE1 / ESA 1995)

1970-2007
72 industries
29 countries

EU KLEMS consortium
November 2009 Release
DOI: 10.34894/8AWC3R

ISIC Rev. 3 / SNA93 (NACE1 / ESA 1995)

1970-2007
32 industries
29 countries

EU KLEMS consortium
March 2008 Release
DOI: 10.34894/MGSB4H

ISIC Rev. 3 / SNA93 (NACE1 / ESA 1995)

1970-2005

72 industries
31 countries

EU KLEMS consortium
This release provides additional information on industry level indicators, such as patents, and R&D stocks, mainly aggregated from firm level data.
EU KLEMS consortium
November 2007 Release
ISIC Rev. 3 / SNA93 (NACE1 / ESA 1995)
1970-2005

32 industries
27 countries

EU KLEMS consortium
March 2007 Release
ISIC Rev. 3 / SNA93 (NACE1 / ESA 1995)
1970-2004

72 industries
28 countries

EU KLEMS consortium
*The period and industry coverage is the maximum that is available, some countries may have less data available, for more details see the sources and methods documentation, and the meta files. Growth accounting variables are available for 32 industries.

†The data for the 2019 release is available via: https://www.euklems.eu
Note: Country aggregates are available for all releases, except the 2012 and December 2016 releases.

For comments and suggestions please send an email to euklems rug.nl.

Original EU KLEMS project

The first EU KLEMS project ran from 2003 until 2008. It was funded by the European Commission, Research Directorate General as part of the 6th Framework Programme, Priority 8, "Policy Support and Anticipating Scientific and Technological Needs". The EU KLEMS Database can be used for analytical and policy-related purposes, in particular by studying the relationship between skill formation, technological progress and innovation on the one hand, and productivity, on the other. To facilitate this type of analysis a link will has been sought with existing micro (firm level) databases. The balance in academic, statistical and policy input in this project was realised by the participation of 15 organisations from across the EU, representing a mix of academic institutions and national economic policy research institutes and with the support from various statistical offices and the OECD.

Input measures include various categories of capital, labour, energy, material and service inputs. Productivity measures have been developed, using growth accounting techniques and several measures on knowledge creation have also been constructed. The original EU KLEMS project page has been archived and is no longer maintained. The datasets of various releases are now hosted on Dataverse.

Acknowledgement

6th framework program
Seventh Framework Programme

The construction of this database is financially supported by the European Commission, Research Directorate General as part of the 6th Framework Programme, Priority 8, “Policy Support and Anticipating Scientific and Technological Needs” and as part of the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 8: Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities, Grant agreement no: 225 281. Any errors or omissions are entirely the responsibility of the GGDC (Groningen Growth and Development Centre).

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