This is the second paper in a series of three papers that lays the groundwork for the Commission’s approach and work program on productivity in South Australia. It analyses South Australia’s productivity performance within the context of the conceptual framework and highlights the State’s productivity challenge. 

This paper is organised as follows. 

• Section 2 examines the performance of South Australia’s living standards. 
• Section 3 analyses the performance of labour productivity in South Australia, and its drivers. 
• Section 4 looks at the performance of labour utilisation in South Australia. 
• Section 5 concludes the paper. 

The third paper will discuss the distribution of productivity gains.