The Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS has been regularly publishing information about labor productivity, including work productivity statistics, every quarter since 1967. There are timely publications eight times yearly on unit labor costs and labor productivity data. This press release is then entitled “Productivity and Costs.”
Initial data for a quarter are shortly released after the advance GDP data is published by the BEA at the end of the month succeeding the end of the quarter. After the BEA publishes the “preliminary” GDP data a month after, revised measures are then released. Since there is only minimal data change, there are no new releases in the third month.