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Social Accounting Matrix for Cameroon 2016

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The EC's Data-Modelling platform of resource economics (DataM) is glad to release the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Cameroon, referring to year 2016.


Data and dashboard

This product is included in the DataM section PANAP - The Pan African Network for economic Analysis of Policies.

The SAM is available in a dashboard allowing the download in traditional matrix format, or in flat CSV data accessible by query (french and english) or bulk download (french and english).

Also, thanks to SAM data and multipliers, the DataM tool to simulate the impact in employment of demand (export) changes, the jobs calculator, is now available also for Cameroon.


Publication/Methodology

Title: Integrating the three sustainability dimensions: A Social Accounting Matrix approach for Cameroon.

URL: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134015

Authors: El Meligi, A; Ferreira, V; Ferrari, E

Abstract: A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a comprehensive and economy-wide database that records data on all transactions taking place in an economy over a specific period, typically one year. The SAM serves two primary objectives. Firstly, it presents the economic structure and interrelationships among economic agents in the region under analysis. Secondly, it provides a database for analysing the economy’s performance and simulating the effects of policy interventions through multisectoral linear models and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. This paper presents the 2016 SAM for Cameroon, offering a suitable database for implementing and evaluating the country's developmental, social, economic and environmental policies. The paper outlines how to pass from a standard structure of the SAM to a detailed scheme by explaining all the accounts included, and covering key aspects of its construction and estimation. This SAM presents a high level of disaggregation by encompassing labour and household characteristics, along with satellite accounts for employment and emissions. The SAM is used as a database to perform a descriptive analysis of the Cameroonian economy and to obtain results that focus on the three sustainability dimensions: social, economic and environmental.

Find it also in: the DataM publications navigator

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