Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

T. R. Gupta

Abstract

The input-output transaction matrices developed by Leontief provide a detailed statistical account of the flow of goods and services among all the individual sectors of a national economy over a particular period of time, usually a year. The economic system is visualized as consisting of a number of identifiable sectors, each of which is represented in the transaction matrix by a row and a column.

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T. R. Gupta

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The National Sample Survey (N.S.S.) has been collecting data on household consumer expenditure from the very first round which started in October, 1950. Beginning from the second round onward, estimate of the distribution of population and consumer expenditure in a fixed set of twelve classes of monthly per capita expenditure have been published in various reports of the N.S.S.

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