ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the data, the selection of firms and industry sectors, the way additional series were constructed and what proxies were used. It also puts the practice of compiling accounting information into a social and cultural context. From the discussion in earlier chapters it should be apparent that data availability has had a considerable influence on the techniques used in this study. Many more interesting aspects of economic efficiency measurement are excluded from this analysis because of the nature and limitation of the accounting information. But there is still a lot to be gained from constructing quantitative measures of productivity in order to access the speed and direction of changes during the early part of the transition that is the focus of this study.
