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Developments in the measurement of general government output
Describing new output measures for Administration of Justice and Agricultural Intervention, now also incorporated into the published National Accounts.
Two recent articles in Economic Trends discussed the problems of defining and measuring the non-market output of general government and described the output measures for health, education and social services that are included in the published National Accounts. This article describes new output measures for Administration of Justice and Agricultural Intervention that are now also incorporated into the published National Accounts. The measures are used in the calculation of both General Government constant price final expenditure and Government output.
Administration of Justice covers Prisons, Legal Aid and the courts. Probation should also be included; an experimental index for this area has been derived. For the Intervention Board, the Board's own published Cost Weighted Activity Index (CWAI) is used.
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