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This paper is mainly concerned with statistical problems relating to intermediate services that arise in the construction of national input-output (I-O) tables. Though these problems are sometimes discussed in the I-O literature, their precise nature is usually not spelled out in any detail and this is done in the paper. The problems are closely related to the classical company-establishment statistical dichotomy permeating the ultimate sources and allocation of intermediate service inputs. We will show that presently used procedures for Canadian and American I-O compilation bear evidence of statistical inconsistencies and lack an appropriate framework to utilize full information. The paper suggests a possible approach for reconciling company and establishment data based on industrial organization linkage analysis at the microdata level. Considerable empirical support is offerred, using official Canadian statistical publications, to show that the suggested approach is both feasible and has desirable properties.
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Postner, H.H. (1982). Problems of Identifying and Measuring Intermediate Services in the Compilation and Use of Input-Output Tables. In: Skolka, J.V. (eds) Compilation of Input-Output Tables. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46462-1_10
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