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The United Nations System of National Accounts and the Integration of Macro and Micro Data

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The United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA) has been an evolutionary development over a period of fifty years. It was born in the world of macroeconomics, but statistically its roots have been in the data relating to individual decision-making units of the economy. Since its inception, both the complexity of the economic system and the concern with social problems have increased. Currently, governments are faced with the need to evaluate both the macro and micro aspects of their policies relating to old age entitlements, health care, education, the environment and poverty. The national accounts alone are not sufficient for this task. Both the need and the technical feasibility of linking the macro framework with micro data have increased. The following discussion attempts to trace the evolution of the system with respect to the macro/ micro linkage and to indicate how the macro accounts and micro data bases can be integrated.

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Ruggles, R., Postner, H.H. (1996). The United Nations System of National Accounts and the Integration of Macro and Micro Data. In: Kendrick, J.W. (eds) The New System of National Accounts. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1798-9_12

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