Abstract
This paper describes the construction of the Mongolian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for 2014 in detail. The SAM has fifty-six sectors, seventy commodities, two types of production factors (capital and labor), three types of institutions (households, government and the rest of the world) along with capital accounts, three types of taxes (direct taxes, import duties and indirect taxes on commodities) and investment accounts (public investment, private investment and changes in inventories).
Highlights
The Mongolian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for 2014 was constructed with primary data sources that comprised Supply and Use Tables (SUTs), government budget data from the National Statistical Office (NSO),1 and Balance of Payments (BoP) information from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).2 The SAM is a square matrix with 210 columns and rows
Its accounts consist of fifty-six sectors and seventy commodities, two production factors, three types of institutions along with their capital accounts, three types of taxes and investment accounts
The share of value added in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 90.1%, and the remaining 9.9% came from indirect taxes on commodities (7.7%), import duties (1.6%), and net taxes on production (0.5%)
Summary
The Mongolian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for 2014 was constructed with primary data sources that comprised Supply and Use Tables (SUTs), government budget data from the National Statistical Office (NSO), and Balance of Payments (BoP) information from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The SAM is a square matrix with 210 columns and rows. The Mongolian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for 2014 was constructed with primary data sources that comprised Supply and Use Tables (SUTs), government budget data from the National Statistical Office (NSO), and Balance of Payments (BoP) information from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).. The SAM is a square matrix with 210 columns and rows. Its accounts consist of fifty-six sectors and seventy commodities, two production factors (capital and labor), three types of institutions (households, government and rest of the world) along with their capital accounts, three types of taxes (direct taxes, import duties, and indirect taxes on commodities) and investment accounts (public investment, private investment and changes in inventories).. Income and expenditure of all accounts of the SAM were equivalent (that is, the SAM was balanced). Its accounts consist of fifty-six sectors and seventy commodities, two production factors (capital and labor), three types of institutions (households, government and rest of the world) along with their capital accounts, three types of taxes (direct taxes, import duties, and indirect taxes on commodities) and investment accounts (public investment, private investment and changes in inventories). Income and expenditure of all accounts of the SAM were equivalent (that is, the SAM was balanced).
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