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Measuring the output of non-market services
Work done within the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to improve the measurement of non-market output within the national accounts.
This article reports on work done within the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to improve the measurement of non-market output within the national accounts. The initial ideas were presented in an Economic Trends article in February 1998.
This article describes the work which has been done and explains the methodology which is being adopted for some output series from the 1998 Blue Book. This article begins with a description of the issues and looks at approaches to handling these. It then explains the methods used in this year’s Blue Book and describes the impact on published data.
Finally there is a discussion of the areas where research was less successful and the possible direction of future research.
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