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Whilst it has been the general principle in most sections of this work, only completely ignored in section H, to prefer raw data to those which have been processed, there are no such things as raw national accounts statistics, and everything in this section is synthetic, the result of elaborate calculations by sophisticated statisticians. It is really impossible to summarise briefly all the complex operations involved, and the user who requires descriptions of them is advised to consult the latest UN, Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics, or, for more detail, their National Accounting Practices in Sixty Countries, and the IMF, Balance of Payments Yearbook.
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Mitchell, B.R. (1995). National Accounts. In: International Historical Statistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24069-2_10
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