Appendix C

The Seven-Sector Aggregation

The Turkish input-output tables before 1996 comprised sixty-four sectors. The available latest table, on the other hand, possesses 97 sectors. Due to lack of the data on the price indices at this aggregation level, we aggregated sectors to the 24 sectors. However, it has been necessary to aggregate them further to 7 sectors to examine some hypothesis advanced in the text. In what follows, we first present the aggregation of the 64 x 64 input-output table to the 24 x 24 one, then introduce the smaller table with further aggregation to 7 sectors.