Commercial sector

The commercial sector comprises all economic sectors except government, education and trade in real estate including owner-occupied dwellings. In 2025, the commercial sector accounted for approximately 80 percent of total value added.

For the individual industrial sectors that make up the commercial sector, changes in labour productivity can be determined relatively easily by looking at how much value added has been produced (output) and how many hours worked were required to achieve this (input).

For the other sectors, output cannot be measured directly. For example, production in education and the government is mainly estimated indirectly based on the sum of costs (wages and intermediate consumption). This means that inputs and outputs in these sectors cannot be seen independently of each other, so it is meaningless to determine labour productivity for these sectors.