The objectives of this study are to present the french experience of satellite accounts in the field
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th13 International Conference on Input-Output Techniques21-25 August MacerataTHE FRENCH EXPERIENCE WITH SATELLITE ACCOUNTSBy Michel Braibant (Session 9.3.)***ABSTRACTThe French satellite accounts describe many fields of economic and social activity, suchas health, social protection, research, road transportation, housing, energy and theenvironment. These fields are characterised by large-scale government intervention in theform of direct expenditures or transfer payments. The aim of a satellite account is toprovide information about a specific set of aggregates, primarily the characteristic activities,expenditures, financing, and beneficiaries in its field. The analysis of beneficiaries,however—originally one of the accounts' major purposes—has been hampered by the factthat the beneficiary of an expenditure is not always easy to identify ,... (for further details,see item [1] of the bibliography).Another common feature of the satellite fields is the importance of non-monetary data,measured in physical units. Sometimes, as in environment accounts, the physicalquantities are used as a basis to compute expenditure. They may even be regarded as acentral element for describing a field: one example is the concept of "natural patrimony" inenvironmental accounting. The water-use account of economic agents, formulated in cubicmeters, will be compared with the water-expenditure account in order to determine theaverage price of water per cubic meter. In energy ...