Multifactor productivity - defined as output per unit of combined inputs - increased in only 12 of the 86 four-digit NAICS manufacturing industries in 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. This was down from 2008, when multifactor productivity increased in 36 of those 86 industries. Fewer manufacturing industries recorded multifactor productivity increases in 2009 than in any year since the beginning of the measures in 1987.

Source: BLS

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