InSTePP United States Production Accounts

The InSTePP production accounts consist of an evolving series of accounts designed to track, analyze and help understand the nature and sources of production and productivity growth in U.S. agriculture. Construction of the accounts began in 1984 under the continuing leadership of Philip Pardey at the University of Minnesota's International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP) center. The core elements of the accounts consist of aggregate input and output price and quantity indexes constructed for U.S agriculture at both the state and national levels. The accounts also include state and national level estimates of multi-factor productivity. Since the inception of the accounts, particular attention has been paid to adjusting for quality (compositional) change in the primary inputs of land, labor and capital.

This is an on-going area of interest for InSTePP. Each version of the accounts supersedes the previous version, but in the interests of continuity and transparency, older versions of the accounts are kept available on line. The analytical and policy products developed from these data are clustered below with the respective version of the series used to develop these products. Documentation of the procedures used to construct the accounts are available here.

Version 5

Version 5 of the accounts consist of annual U.S. national and state-specific agricultural input, output and multi-factor productivity estimates spanning the period 1949-2007. This version of the accounts represents an update of the prior version, with no major changes to any methodological or other aspects related to the construction of the series.

 

Version 5 authors: Philip Pardey, Mathew Andersen, Barbara Craig and Julian Alston
Version 4

Version 4 of the accounts consist of annual U.S. national and state-specific agricultural input, output and multi-factor productivity estimates spanning the period 1949-2002. In addition to bringing the series forward from 1991 to 2002, Version 4 includes some significant revisions to components of the series, with special attention paid to capital inputs. Mathew Andersen (University of Wyoming and InSTePP) led that effort, with additional input from Jason Beddow (University of Minnesota and InSTePP), Connie Chan-Kang, Michelle Hallaway and Philip Pardey.

 

Version 4 authors: Philip Pardey, Mathew Andersen, Barbara Craig and Julian Alston
Version 3

Version 3 was the first release version of the accounts and consists of annual U.S. national and state-specific agricultural input, output and multi-factor productivity estimates spanning the period 1949-1991. It was developed by Barbara Craig and Philip Pardey with additional help from Albert Acquaye (then at University of California, Davis) and input from Julian Alston (University of California, Davis and InSTePP). This version of the accounts represents an update of the prior version, with no major changes to any methodological or other aspects related to the construction of the series.

 

Version 3 authors: Barbara Craig, Philip Pardey and Albert Acquaye
Version 1&2

Versions 1 and 2 are the initial, exploratory, unpublished versions of the InSTePP production accounts, covering the period 1949-91. The series was initiated and developed by Barbara Craig (now at Oberlin College) and Philip Pardey, with substantial input from Michelle Hallaway and Connie Chan-Kang, both from InSTePP, and Louise Letnes, then at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. At the time of instigating this line of work in the early 1980s, the lack of state-level aggregate input, output and productivity data was a major motivating factor. So too was the lack of explicit attention paid to accounting for quality (compositional) changes in agricultural inputs, especially in relation to key factors such as land, labor, and capital. Both aspects are areas of continuing attention for the InSTePP Production Accounts.

 

Version 1&2 authors: Barbara Craig and Philip Pardey
Version 5
Dataset
2018 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2007 (Version 5, rev) - Input Quantity Index
2018 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2007 (Version 5, rev) - Multifactor Productivity Index
2014 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2007 (Version 5) - Input Quantity Index
2014 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2007 (Version 5) - Multifactor Productivity Index
2014 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2007 (Version 5) - Output Quantity Index
Version 4
Dataset
2011 State-Specific Summary of Growth Rates for Agricultural Inputs, Outputs, and Multifactor Productivity extracted from InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2002 (Version 4)
2011 U.S. Agricultural Input Price and Quantity Indexes and Cost Shares extracted from InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2002 (Version 4)
2011 U.S. Agricultural Output Price and Quantity Indexes and Cost Shares extracted from InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2002 (Version 4)
2010 "The InSTePP Production Accounts"
2010 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2002 (Version 4) - Input Quantity Index
2010 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2002 (Version 4) - Multifactor Productivity Index
2010 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 2002 (Version 4) - Output Quantity Index
2006 InSTePP Primary Data Documentation U.S. Agricultural Input, Output, and Productivity Series, 1949–2002 (Version 4)
Publications
2012 "Capital Services in U.S. Agriculture: Concepts, Comparisons, and the Treatment of Interest Rates: An Error and a Correction"
2011 "The Economic Returns to U.S. Public Agricultural Research"
2010 Persistence Pays: U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending
2009 "Capital Service Flows: Concepts and Comparisons of Alternative Measures in U.S. Agriculture"
2007 "Capital Use Intensity and Productivity Biases"
2006 "Asset Utilization and Bias in Measures of U.S. Agricultural Productivity"
Version 3
Dataset
2002 "Data Documentation for 2003 AJAE paper "
2002 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 1991 (Version 3) - Input Quantity Index
2002 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 1991 (Version 3) - Multifactor Productivity Index
2002 InSTePP US Production Accounts 1949 - 1991 (Version 3) - Output Quantity Index
2002 Primary Data Documentation U.S. Agricultural Input, Output, and Productivity Series, 1949–1991 (Version 3)
Publications
2003 "Post-War Productivity Patterns in U.S. Agriculture: Influences of Aggregation Procedures in a State-Level Analysis"
2002 "A Disaggregated Perspective on Post-War Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture: Isn't that Spatial?"
Version 1&2
Publications
2001 "Inputs, Output, and Productivity Developments in U.S. Agriculture"
1996 "Inputs, Output and Productivity Developments in U.S. Agriculture"
1996 "Productivity Measurement in the Presence of Quality Change"
1994 "A New Look at State-Level Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture"
1990 "Patterns of Agricultural Development in the United States"
1987 "Dynamics of the Agricultural Research and Output Relationship"