SUMMARY
Analysis of productivity growth in Communication services over an extended time period is difficult due to changes in the composition of industry output as the products and services that make up industry output changed considerably between 1985-86 and 2005-06. The growth in internet and mobile telephone services and the relative decline of postal services will have had an affect on measured productivity as each new activity would have different labour and capital requirements to traditional telephone and postal services. It is difficult to separate the impact of structural change from the impact of compositional changes in output when analysing MFP growth and any analysis of productivity growth in this industry should take this into consideration.
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