SESAME: an Integrated Economic and Social Accounting System

Abstract

This article outlines a statistical information system that serves to monitor and analyze the interactions between economic development ahd social change. This so-called SESAME links the monetary data in the national accounts to non-monetary social and environmental data, and yields a consistent set of core indicators on the development of national welfare.

Historical Trajectories of the Financial Sector Display in the System of National Accounts

“…An alternative is to develop a very extended system of non-monetary accounts and indicators embedded in a national accounts framework (see Keuning, 1997and Kazemier et al, 1999. Such an ambitious system has clear advantages, but will have to overcome the same practical problems as a big and complex national accounting system.…”

The Netherlands’ NAMEA; presentation, usage and future extensions

“…' (CBS, 1996b). The SESAME-approach is set out in Keuning (1996) while a summary can be found in Keuning (1997) and in a recent accounting Handbook of the United Nations (1998).…”

Interaction Between National Accounts and Socio‐economic Policy

“…interest) should be explicitly shown as inputs into production (cf. Keuning, 1996;Keuning and Reininga, 1 996).…”

“…Thus the problem is not so much a lack of information, but a lack of integration of this information within a comprehensive, though flexible statistical information system. This requirement is met by a System of Economic and Social Accounting Matrices and Extensions (SESAME), as sketched in the 1993 SNA (paras 20.29-20.33) and elaborated in Keuning (1996), who has built on earlier work of, among others Stone (1986), Pyatt and Round (1985), and Downey and Thorbecke (1 992).3…”

“…In Chapter I of Keuning (1996), content and purpose of the SESAME are outlined: "A SESAME is a statistical information system in matrix format, from which a set of core economic, environmental and social macro-indicators is derived. The system is driven, to a large extent, by the kind of information required he important role of financial capital inputs into production is elaborated and illustrated in Keuning (1996) and Keuning and Reininga (1996).…”