"Figure 2: Productivity falls in Quarter 1 2019 when compared with Quarter 4 2018","" "Public service productivity, inputs and output, quarter on quarter growth rates, UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017 to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Data are from this experimental quarterly release. 2. Experimental quarterly estimates of productivity are indirectly seasonally adjusted, calculated using seasonally adjusted inputs and seasonally adjusted output. 3. Growth rates have been expressed in (natural) logarithm changes such that output growth and (inverted) input growth can be added to exactly equal changes in productivity. Further information on log changes can be found in Section 3 of [A simple guide to multi-factor productivity](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/productivitymeasures/methodologies/asimpleguidetomultifactorproductivity). " "Unit","Quarter-on-quarter growth (%)" "","" "","Inputs (inverted)","Output","Productivity" "2017Q1","0.7","-0.4","0.3" "2017Q2","-0.6","0.2","-0.4" "2017Q3","0.2","0.3","0.5" "2017Q4","-0.2","0","-0.2" "2018Q1","1.5","-0.1","1.4" "2018Q2","-2.5","0.1","-2.3" "2018Q3","0.3","-0.3","0" "2018Q4","-1","1.3","0.3" "2019Q1","-2.2","1.1","-1.1"