The 1996 and 1997 Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) for Vietnam

The data sources used to construct the SAMs include national accounts statistics, government budget data, the official 1996 input-output table, the 19 97/98 Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), and COMTRADE trade data. The agri-food sectors are particularly well represented in the SAMs: the resulting VIETSAM includes 97 producing sectors with eight agricultural sectors, two agricultural service sector s and 13 food processing industries.

In terms of inst itutional detail, the SAMs include five factors of production (three types of labor distinguished by skill level, one type of capital and one type of land), six household types (distinguished by rural/ ur ban, agricultural/non-agricultural, wage/self-employed), and one account each for enterprises, government, investment/savings and rest- of-world. The rest-of-world account is a purely non-trade- related account that keeps track of financial transfers between Vietnamese institutions and th e rest of the world.