Parramatta. productivity increase by 9.3%

Productivity – a key component of economic growth and a measure of the efficiency or production within a region – in the Parramatta local government area increased by 9.3 per cent, in 2008/09, to $73.62 compared to the average figure of $67.36 in the previous year. Parramatta recorded a higher total industry productivity average than NSW, $68.74, in 2009/09,while also recording a higher increase than the average for the state of 5.5 percent, according to Parramatta City Council’s Biz Facts autumn/winter 2010 edition.