What is Input-Output?
Input-output tables provide a complete picture of the flows of products and services in the economy for a given year, illustrating the relationship between producers and consumers and the interdependencies of industries.
What year do these tables relate to?
The latest tables, published on the 12th of December 2007, describe the economic activity in the Scottish Economy during the 2004 calendar year. These tables are available in the downloads section of this site. This section also contains the 1998 to 2003 tables, with earlier tables available upon request.
How are these tables used?
The IO tables provide a wealth of detailed information about the purchases made by each sector of the economy in order to produce their own output, including purchases of imported commodities and their contribution to Gross Domestic Product.
Whilst this descriptive information is useful in its own right, the tables are principally used by the Scottish Government, academics and other economic researchers to produce economic impact assessments of changes in the Scottish economy. In previous years, input-output based impact assessments have contributed to a number of major studies, including the joint bid for the Euro 2008 Football championship, the economic impact of the Foot and Mouth epidemic and the economic impact of the World Trade Centre attacks upon the Scottish economy.
What can I find in this site?
The latest available Statistics Publication Notice provides a brief summary of key points from the 2004 input-output tables as well as 11 industry aggregate use, make and industry by industry tables. This was published on the 12th of December 2007. The full 128 industry input-output tables that relate to the figures in this publication are available in the downloads section of this site.
This site also acts as a user guide for people who are relatively new to input-output. These pages provide an overview and main uses of each of the tables published.
The downloads page contains downloadable excel files of each table in addition to working papers and other documents on the uses of the IO tables.
The contacts page will allow you to contact us if you have a question not answered by this site.
The future developments page show details of future work planned to improve the quality of input-output tables.
Finally, the links page will allow you to visit other related areas of the Scottish Government website in addition to some external sites principally concerning input-output analysis.