Productivity SA collects data from official, sources, namely, Statistics South Africa and South African Reserve Bank. The productivity indices are then calculated using the data. These indices comprise Capital labour ratio, Labour productivity, Capital productivity, Multifactor productivity, Compensation per employee as well as Unit labour cost. The indices are calculated for the total economy, the 3 main sectors of the economy, the 10 main industries as well as the 8 selected manufacturing sub sectors (Not published since the 2021 Productivity Statistics report) organised according to the Statistics South Africa's Standard Industrial Classification(SIC) of all Economic Activities (2013). The methodology used in the calculation of the indices is in that recommended by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Manual: Measuring Productivity (2017.)
