Conclusions
Improving New Zealand’s measures of public sector output should become a priority over the next few years. This is necessary to maintain internationally acceptable practices in our national accounts, and is a crucial part of the drive to focus on outputs and outcomes in government service performance measurement. The United Kingdom has made considerable advances in output measurement and New Zealand can use this progress as a guide. Australia also continues to test new methods and the European Union and the United States will in the coming years push forward in the area, providing valuable lessons for New Zealand.
