Primers and Manuals  

Statistics Canada

• About Canada’s Income and Expenditures Accounts: http://www.statcan.ca/english/nea-cen/about/iea.htm
• Your Guide to the Consumer Price Index: http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/62-557-XIB/62-557-XIB1996001.pdf

From the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA):

• Measuring the Economy: A Primer on GDP and the National Income and Product Accounts | September 2007  (PDF - 572KB)http://www.bea.gov/national/pdf/nipa_primer.pdf
• MP-1: An Introduction to the National Income and Product Accounts | September 2007 (PDF - 672KB)http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/national/nipa/methpap/mpi1_0907.pdf
• Concepts and Methods of the U.S. Input-Output Accounts | September 2006 (PDF - 2,591KB)http://www.bea.gov/papers/pdf/IOmanual_092906.pdf

From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):

• The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI): http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm#overview

International Resources

• The Latest International Consumer Price Index Manual: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/guides/cpi/index.htm

OECD

• OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators: http://www.oecdwash.org/PDFILES/comp_product_indicators.pdf
• Measuring Productivity by Paul Schreyer: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/29/2352458.pdf
• OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms: http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/index.htm