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NATIONAL AND SECTOR BALANCE SHEETS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Author(s) -
Hibbert Jack
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00242.x
Subject(s) - national accounts , variety (cybernetics) , balance (ability) , work (physics) , kingdom , balance sheet , interpretation (philosophy) , economics , macroeconomics , accounting , engineering , computer science , statistics , mathematics , biology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , programming language , medicine , mechanical engineering , paleontology
Although national and sector balance sheets have long been regarded as part of the national accounting framework, for a variety of reasons their compilation by official statisticians has been the exception rather than the rule. A programme of balance sheet work in the United Kingdom Central Statistical Office has recently been completed and the results published. The theoretical and practical problems arising in the course of this work are described and discussed. Summary results are given together with an interpretation of the main changes in the sectoral composition of national wealth between 1957 and 1975.