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A 1995 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) For Zambia

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title A 1995 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) For Zambia
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9RMBRA
 
Creator University of Kiel
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper documents the construction of the 1995 Social Accounting Matrix for
Zambia (ZAMSAM). The SAM incorporates economy-wide data in a consistent
framework and provides the benchmark data for the analysis under the MERRISA
project. Data sources include national accounts data, government budgets, balance of payments statistics, trade data, household surveys, and farm budgets. The SAM
construction can be divided into three steps: First, a highly aggregated SAM (macro
SAM) is constructed. It represents the macroeconomic framework of the Zambian
economy. Second, the macro SAM is disaggregated into a micro SAM with the macro
SAM entries serving as control totals for various sub-matrices of the micro SAM. Due to data insufficiencies, the first micro SAM obtained from raw data is highly unbalanced. Thus, in a third step and after some prior adjustments, a cross-entropy approach is applied to balance the first micro SAM and generate the final estimated SAM. The result is a consistent and balanced SAM for Zambia in 1995 that comprises 28 activities, 27 commodities, 6 factors of production (4 labor categories, 1 capital, and 1 land account), 4 household types, and one account each for enterprises, government, rest-of-the-world, and investment/savings. Special features of the Zambian micro SAM include its focus on agriculture (13 agricultural commodities), the consideration of non-monetary, own household consumption, and the separation of marketing margins on domestic products, exports, and imports.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
social accounting matrix
SAM
Zambia
Southern Africa
Africa South of Sahara
Africa
 
Language English
 
Date 1995
 
Contributor KM, IFPRI
 
Relation A 2001 Social Accounting Matrix for Zambia


A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Database for Zambia
 
Type Value-added secondary data