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Why is Georgia GDP per resident not the same as labor productivity?

  • The denominator includes people who are not employed
  • State GDP excludes all output by workers
  • Population measures only full-time employees
  • Every resident works the same number of hours
Correct answer(s):
  • The denominator includes people who are not employed

Why is higher GDP per worker not direct proof of greater individual effort?

  • All industries use identical equipment
  • Capital intensity can affect output per worker
  • Industrial classification removes capital effects
  • Worker effort alone determines measured GDP
Correct answer(s):
  • Capital intensity can affect output per worker

Why is the gross value of goods through Savannah’s port different from Georgia value added?

  • Every cargo shipment is produced entirely in Savannah
  • Port activity is omitted from all state accounts
  • Cargo value includes production beyond local port services
  • Cargo value measures only dockworkers’ wages
Correct answer(s):
  • Cargo value includes production beyond local port services

What limits the use of Savannah throughput as a direct measure of Georgia production?

  • Transit cargo is always a Georgia final product
  • Every unloaded item is part of state government output
  • All cargo must originate inside Georgia
  • Some cargo is produced or consumed outside Georgia
Correct answer(s):
  • Some cargo is produced or consumed outside Georgia

What risk arises when a total industry-impact estimate is added to Georgia GDP?

  • Excluding the directly measured industry’s output
  • Double-counting activity already in the accounts
  • Removing all indirect supplier activity
  • Converting nominal GDP automatically to real GDP
Correct answer(s):
  • Double-counting activity already in the accounts

What evidence is needed to assess whether a Georgia investment created additional jobs?

  • Realized jobs and a credible no-project comparison
  • Only the number of press-release readers
  • Only the construction site’s street address
  • Only the jobs listed in its announcement
Correct answer(s):
  • Realized jobs and a credible no-project comparison

Tourism and Georgia employment rise together. What can this observation alone establish?

  • An association rather than full causal attribution
  • Tourism caused every additional job
  • No other economic factor changed
  • Employment caused all tourism growth
Correct answer(s):
  • An association rather than full causal attribution

A university and a nearby Georgia technology cluster grow together. What remains unresolved by proximity alone?

  • Whether the two places are geographically near
  • The direction and causes of their relationship
  • Whether both reported growth
  • Whether the university has a location
Correct answer(s):
  • The direction and causes of their relationship

Why should Georgia’s chained-dollar industry GDP levels not simply be added outside the reference year?

  • All industry levels are already percentages
  • Real industry output is always excluded from state GDP
  • Chained dollars measure only state government revenue
  • Chain weighting generally makes the components nonadditive
Correct answer(s):
  • Chain weighting generally makes the components nonadditive

What should be separated when explaining higher Georgia crop production?

  • Only changes in county names
  • Only changes in retail packaging
  • The state flower and state crop
  • Changes in harvested area and yield
Correct answer(s):
  • Changes in harvested area and yield