The Performance of Non-Survey Techniques for Constructing Sub-Territorial Input-Output Tables

This study is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the performance of various non-survey techniques for constructing sub-territorial Input-Output tables. Three aspects of the behaviour of the methods are analysed: performances in reproducing ‘true' input coefficients, variability of error, and direction of bias. The analysis uses real data and in particular the World Input-Output Table. The results of the analysis show that, with the exceptions of some not significant differences, the methods considered seem to have similar behaviour and that the AFLQ does not improve the results of the FLQ method