Extension of national accounts: opportunities provided by the implementation of the 1993 SNA

Vanoli, André

doi:10.3233/sju-1994-11302

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“…In turn, and in contrast to the views of some national accountants (e.g. Vanoli, 1994), the prospects for frameworks for social statistics that build out from SNA concepts are not good. Completely fresh approaches are required.…”

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Socio-Economic Statistics and Public Policy: A New Role for Microsimulation Modeling

Wolfson

1996

SSRN Journal

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Users of socio-economic statistics typically want more and better information. Often, these needs can be met simply by more extensive data collections, subject to usual concerns over financial costs and survey respondent burdens. Users, particularly for public policy purposes, have also expressed a continuing, and as yet unfilled, demand for an integrated and coherent system of socio-economic statistics. In this case, additional data will not be sufficient; the more important constraint is the absence of an agreed conceptual approach.In this paper, we briefly review the state of frameworks for social and economic statistics, including the kinds of socio-economic indicators users may want. These indicators are motivated first in general terms from basic principles and intuitive concepts, leaving aside for the moment the practicalities of their construction. We then show how a coherent structure of such indicators might be assembled.A key implication is that this structure requires a coordinated network of surveys and data collection processes, and higher data quality standards. This in turn implies a breaking down of the "stovepipe" systems that typify much of the survey work in national statistical agencies (i.e. parallel but generally unrelated data "production lines"). Moreover, the data flowing from the network of surveys must be integrated. Since the data of interest are dynamic, the proposed method goes beyond statistical matching to microsimulation modeling. Finally, these ideas are illustrated with preliminary results from the LifePaths model currently under development in Statistics Canada.

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“…Pyatt, 1990), or Satellite Accounts (e.g. Vanoli, 1994;Pommier, 1981). The second proposed strategy is construction of a framework designed specifically for social statistics --the best known and most clearly articulated being Stone's System of Social and Demographic Statistics (SSDS; UN, 1975;Stone, 1973).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Socio-Economic Statistics and Public Policy: A New Role for Microsimulation Modeling

Wolfson

1996

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“…Two hypotheses are set by the SNA 1993 to transfer outputs and associated inputs: 2 • The technology based on commodities, also called product-technology assumption , which corresponds to Eurostat's Model A: "Each product is produced in its own specific way, irrespective of the industry where it is produced" (Eurostat 2008, p. 297). This 1 See also Blades (1989), Van Bochove and Bloem (1987), Vanoli (1994), Lawson (1997) and Guo et al (2002). 2 This excerpt from the SNA 1993 (United Nations 2001, item 15.144 and 15.145): "The mathematical methods used when transferring outputs and associated inputs hinge on two types of technology assumptions: (a) Industry (producer) technology, assuming that all products produced by an industry are produced with the same input structure; (b) Product (commodity) technology, assuming that a product has the same input structure in whichever industry it is produced.…”

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On the Impossibility of Calculating the Product Technology in the Supply-Use Model

Mesnard

2009

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“…Most national accounting systems around the world are based on the rectangular input-output model developed by Stone (1961) and adopted by the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the System of National Accounts (SNA) (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1968, 1993, 1999Blades, 1989;van Bochove and Bloem, 1987;Vanoli, 1994;Lawson, 1997). The SNA is a big improvement on the former square industry-by-industry model: a rectangular model distinguishes commodities and industries, and does not require that they be equal in number.…”

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Understanding the Shortcomings of Commodity‐based Technology in Input–Output Models: an Economic‐Circuit Approach

Mesnard

2004

Journal of Regional Science

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The Make-Use Model serves as a basis for most national accounting systems as the System of National Accounts (SNA) and is acknowledged as the most suitable model for interregional analysis. Two hypotheses are traditionally made featuring either industry-based technologies (IBT) or commodity-based technologies (CBT). While industry-based technologies can be easily interpreted in terms of a demand-driven economic circuit, it will be shown that: (1) commodity-based technologies cannot be interpreted as a demand-driven economic circuit because this involves computing the inverse of a matrix (the matrix of industry output proportions), which is either impossible or generates negative terms; (2) the only way to obtain a plausible explanation of CBT is to convert it into a supply-driven model. This provides a new reason for rejecting CBT: either IBT is adopted but violates Kop Jansen and ten Raa's axioms, or CBT is chosen but must be converted into a poor or unrealistic supply-driven model. Copyright Blackwell Publishers, 2004

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Extension of national accounts: opportunities provided by the implementation of the 1993 SNA

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Socio-Economic Statistics and Public Policy: A New Role for Microsimulation Modeling

Socio-Economic Statistics and Public Policy: A New Role for Microsimulation Modeling

On the Impossibility of Calculating the Product Technology in the Supply-Use Model

Understanding the Shortcomings of Commodity‐based Technology in Input–Output Models: an Economic‐Circuit Approach

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