"Figure 3: Productivity is volatile from Quarter 1 2018 to Quarter 3 2019 but declines overall","" "Total public service productivity, UK, 1997 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Estimates from 1997 to 2017 are based on the latest annual public service productivity release. 2. Estimates from Quarter 1 2018 to Quarter 3 2019 (in grey) are the experimental quarterly estimates in this article and are annualised (in yellow) for 2018. 3. Estimates of productivity for the experimental period are indirectly seasonally adjusted, calculated using seasonally adjusted inputs and seasonally adjusted output." "Unit","Index, 2017 = 100" "","" "Years","(National Statistic) Annual Public Service Productivity","(Experimental) Annual Public Service Productivity","(Experimental) Quarterly Public Service Productivity" "1997","","","" "1997","","","" "1997","96.5","","" "1997","","","" "1998","","","" "1998","","","" "1998","97.3","","" "1998","","","" "1999","","","" "1999","","","" "1999","96.9","","" "1999","","","" "2000","","","" "2000","","","" "2000","96.1","","" "2000","","","" "2001","","","" "2001","","","" "2001","97.4","","" "2001","","","" "2002","","","" "2002","","","" "2002","95.6","","" "2002","","","" "2003","","","" "2003","","","" "2003","95.5","","" "2003","","","" "2004","","","" "2004","","","" "2004","96.1","","" "2004","","","" "2005","","","" "2005","","","" "2005","95.8","","" "2005","","","" "2006","","","" "2006","","","" "2006","96.9","","" "2006","","","" "2007","","","" "2007","","","" "2007","96.9","","" "2007","","","" "2008","","","" "2008","","","" "2008","96.3","","" "2008","","","" "2009","","","" "2009","","","" "2009","95.5","","" "2009","","","" "2010","","","" "2010","","","" "2010","95.2","","" "2010","","","" "2011","","","" "2011","","","" "2011","96.2","","" "2011","","","" "2012","","","" "2012","","","" "2012","96.9","","" "2012","","","" "2013","","","" "2013","","","" "2013","98.1","","" "2013","","","" "2014","","","" "2014","","","" "2014","98.6","","" "2014","","","" "2015","","","" "2015","","","" "2015","98.9","","" "2015","","","" "2016","","","" "2016","","","" "2016","99.7","","" "2016","","","" "2017","","","" "2017","","","" "2017","100","100","" "2017","","","" "2018 Q1*","","","101.1" "2018 Q2*","","","99.3" "2018 Q3*","","100.2","99.6" "2018 Q4*","","","100.0" "2019 Q1*","","","100.0" "2019Q2*","","","99.7" "2019Q3*","","","99.4"