Dual sectoring in national accounts

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Al, Pieter G.¹

Note: [1] Pieter G. Al was born in 1943. He graduated in economics at the University of Amsterdam in 1971. Currently he is chief of the national accounts input–output division at the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics.

Abstract: The economic process consists of various sub-processes, each requiring its own characteristic classification when described from a statistical point of view. In doing this, the interfaces linking the sub-systems describing individual processes must be mapped in order to reflect the relations within the overall process. This issue can be examined with special reference to dual sectoring in systems of national accounts. A conceptual explanation of dual sectoring and an outline of a statistical system with complete dual sectoring suggest that the SNA 1968 is incomplete and obscure with respect to the links between the sub-processes. It would be a pity if the confusion this may have caused were to preclude the use of different classifications for the various sub-processes in the description of the economic process.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1987-4402

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 323-345, 1987