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Development, Compilation and Use of Input-Output Suppy and Use Tables
Prepared for the 29th General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth in Finland (August 2006)
Author: Sanjiv Mahajan
Economic Trends, no 634, pp 28-46. ISSN: 0013-0400
The first Input-Output Tables were published in 1961 for the year 1954. Thereafter, being produced roughly every five years for the National Accounts rebasing of constant price estimates. Since 1991/2, I-O Supply and Use Tables have been central to setting the annual level of current price GDP.
This paper covers:
History and development of I-O Supply and Use Tables.
Compilation and methodology of I-O Supply and Use Tables, and annual coherence adjustments to GDP.
Development of data sources used.
Stages of integration with National Accounts.
Development of new analyses based on I-O Supply and Use Tables to increase their value to users.
The paper also describes planned improvements, such as maintaining consistent I-O SUTs over time, handling revisions and development of quarterly and annual I-O SUTs.
Published in web format: 12 September 2006 at 9:30 am