Poultry Processing
We are trying to compare output/employee numbers for poultry processing (sector 92) between the 2014 and 2012 data sets and have found the o/e figures have dropped by about 25 percent between these two data years.
Prices are up and employment is roughly constant. Is there a methodological reason why this would happen, or did the resectoring lead to major discrepancies for this sector
thanks
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Hi John! Thank you for your forum post. You are certainly on the right track. One of the differences for Output/Worker is the Sector change that began starting in the 2013 data release. I have included the link for the release notes to further explain the additional changes to our methodology: http://support.implan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=399#2013-r1-release-notes -
Im not sure that answers the question that we have. Poultry processing is a manufacturing sector and should be be impacted by the Census of Agriculture. It seems as if there was a huge jump in output/employee in 2011 and 2012. The data are: 2010: $234,608 2011: $369,835 2012: $434,613 2013: $255,905 2014: $290,435 We have seen something similar to this when BEA screwed up data and then made an adjustment. Did something like that happen here? We need to track down a reason for the huge 2011-2012 figures in comparison to the data trend. Thank you for any guidance you can provide. -
Hello John, It does appear as though we overestimated this sector's output in 2011 and 2012. A more appropriate output value for both years is provided below: 2011: $52,940,845,299 2012: $56,022,500,000 We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and the delayed response. Regards, IMPLAN Staff
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