Further International Comparisons of Product and Prices in the Continuing Development of a World-Wide System of Real National Accounts

这个项目是关于发展世界范围国民核算制度的工作的继续。由联合国发起的现行制度是关于世界上几乎所有独立的政治分区的经济的价格和数量的标准化经验资料的主要来源。这种核算体系对于大多数对个别经济体的跨时期和特定时间点的分析都是非常宝贵的，但它本身并不能提供跨国家比较的基础。该项目的主要产品是两个数据集，旨在弥补这一不足。第一个是一个非常大的表格，“宾夕法尼亚大学世界表格”，到目前为止，它已经连续出现了五个版本。第二组数据包括1970年、1975年、1980年和1985年约60个国家35种商品和服务的价格平价和数量的详细综合基准估计。该项目将通过扩大其县覆盖范围和填补数据空白来更新“宾州世界表格”。此外，它还将对每个国家的新变量作出估计。新的变量有两种：国内生产总值（gdp）分类组成部分的价格平价和产出，以及按工业生产的购买力平价的新估计。此外，联合国国际比较方案的基准研究将根据共同年份的数据档案和共同方法重新编制。这些更新和扩大的数据集很重要，因为它们为旨在更好地了解国际贸易和经济发展问题的研究提供了所需的基本信息。

This project is a continuation of work on the development of a world-wide system of national accounts. The present system by sponsored by the United Nations is the major source of standardized empirical information about prices and quantities of the economies of nearly all free standing political subdivisions of the world. This system of accounts is invaluable for most kinds of analysis of individual economies, intertemporally and at a given point in time, but by itself does not provide a basis for comparisons across counties. The major products of this project are two data sets which are directed at making up for this deficiency. The first of these is a very large table, "The Penn World Table," which up to now has been presented in five successive versions. The second data set consists of finely detailed and integrated bench mark estimates of price parities and quantities for 35 summary categories of goods and services for about 60 countries for the years 1970, 1975, 1980, and 1985. This project will update the "Penn World Table", by expanding its county coverage, and filling in data gaps. In addition, it will develop estimates of new variables for each country. The new variables are of two types: price parities and outputs of disaggregated components of gross domestic product and new estimates of purchasing power parities for the production of outputs by industry. In addition, the bench mark studies of the United Nations International Comparison Program will be reworked on a data archive of a common vintage and based on a common methodology. These updated and expanded data sets are important because they provide the basic information needed for research aimed at better understanding international trade and economic development issues.