Input-Output-Tabelle für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1966

Abstract

This report is intended to present the most up-to-date input-output table for the Federal Republic of Germany, 1966, compiled by the German Institute fo Economic Research (DIW). A more comprehensive study, including the fully comparable input-output tables for 1954, 1958, 1962, and 1966 and the results of an interpretation with the aid of the open static Leontief-model will be published in "DIW-Beiträge zur Strukturforschung" during next year. This article reviews the concept and the compilation of the DIW-table for 1966. The table consists of 56 primary inputs. The imports are allocated according to purchasing vectors, i.e. the row vector of primary inputs in the main table is the result of the import matrix aggregated by rows. The input-output table is fully integrated within the official System of National Accounts for the Federal Republic of Germany. The compilation of the table is described in respect to the most important statistical sources and to the procedures. It is shown that all final demand and primary input figures are compiled on the basis of statistical information. In addition it was possible to estimate about two thirds of all cells of the first quadrant, respectively of all domestic intermediate transactions on the basis of statistical observation. The missing matrix elements were completed with MODOP (Model of Double Proportionality) in a process of mathematical iteration using the preliminary input-output table for 1962 as basis.