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The report, based on the CSLS Provincial Productivity Database, provides an overview of Manitoba’s productivity performance over the 1997-2007 period. The key findings are the following: • Manitoba’s labour productivity growth in the market sector was above the national average during the 1997-2007 period, with an average growth rate of 2.1 per cent compared to the Canadian rate of 1.7 per cent per year. In terms of labour productivity growth, Manitoba’s performance ranked 2nd among the provinces. • As with Canada, labour productivity growth was driven mainly by capital intensity growth. Capital intensity was responsible for 52.9 per cent of growth in labour productivity in Manitoba over the 1997-2007 period. • Manitoba’s labour productivity level in 2007 was $31.40 (1997 dollars) per hour, which represents 87.1 per cent of the Canadian level. This, in turn, implies a labour productivity gap of 12.9 percentage points. This gap was caused by low levels of both multifactor productivity and capital intensity compared to the national average. • Manitoba had a labour productivity gap in 10 of the 15 two-digit NAICS industries. In most cases, the low multifactor productivity level was the main culprit. The exception was transportatio