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Whilst it has been the general principle in most sections of this work to prefer raw data to those which have been processed, there are no such things as raw national accounts statistics, and everything in this section is ‘synthetic’, the result of elaborate calculations by sophisticated statisticians. It is really impossible to summarize briefly all the complex operations involved, and the user who requires descriptions of them is advised to consult the latest United Nations Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics, or, for more detail, their National Accounting Practices in Sixty Countries, and the International Monetary Fund Balance of Payments Yearbook.
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Canada to 1926 (1st line)–Q.J. Firestone, Canada’s Economic Development, 1867–1953 (Income and Wealth, Series VII, London, 1958).
Cuba to 1927–Julian Alienes, Caracteristicas Fundamentales de la Economia Cubana (Havana, 1950).
Mexico, capital formation to 1950, from Combined Mexican Working Party, The Economic Development of Mexico (Baltimore, 1953)
USA to 1889 (1st line)–Thomas S. Berry, Estimated Annual Variations in Gross National Product, 1789 to 1909 (Richmond, 1968).
USA from 1929 to 198o–U.S. Department of Commerce, Survey of Current Business vol 66, no 2. (February 1986).
Argentina, capital formation to 1934, based on Alexander Ganz and on Manuel Balboa and Alberto Fracchia in Income and Wealth, Series VIII (London, 1959).
Brazil to 1947, from or based on Claudio R. Contador & Claudio L. Haddad, ‘Produto Real, Moeda e Preços: A Experiênca Brasileira no Período 1861–1970’, Revista Brasileira de Estatística (XXXVI, 143, July–Sept 1975).
Chile to 1925 (1st line), from or based on Marto A. Ballasteros and Tom E. Davis, ‘The Growth of Output and Employment in Basic Sectors of the Chilean Economy, 1908–1957’, Economic Development and Cultural Change (January 1963).
Chile 1925 (2nd line) to 1940 (1st line), based on or from the Economic Commission for Latin America sources as modified in Markos Mamalakis and Clark W. Reynolds, Essays on the Chilean Economy (Homewood, 111., 1965), p. 384.
Guyana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad & Tobago are based on UN, Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics (issues to the 1988 volume).
This source has also been used as a supplement for recent years for other countries, though most of the figures are based on James W. Wilkie (ed.), Statistical Abstract of Latin America vol. 20 (Los Angeles, 1980) with some updating from later volumes.
SOURCES:- The volumes of national historical statistics listed on p. xiv-xvi for Canada and USA to 1960 (1st line), and Susan Schroeder, Cuba: A Handbook of Historical Statistics (Boston, 1982) for Cuba.
Other statistics are derived from League of Nations (or United Nations), Balance of Payments (the last one being published in 1948), and from IMF Balance of Payments Yearbook and International Financial Statistics. The latest available revisions for each series have been used.
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Mitchell, B.R. (1993). National Accounts. In: International Historical Statistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13071-9_10
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