Measuring Economic Impacts: The Application of Input-Output Analysis to California Water Resources Problems

摘要

The study describes the development and application of a California statewide and twelve intrastate regional input-output (I-O) models. The statewide model, developed for 1976, consists of 156 sectors with emphasis on high water users, including 36 agricultural categories. The model is resource-oriented, providing estimate of direct and secondary employment, and of energy and water resource use for every million dollars of final demand sales. These resource uses vary by industry, depending on the industry, the resource considered, and the intensity of resource use by related industries. Details of the models and their application, including microfiches of the complete statewide transactions, technical coefficients, and inverse tables, are presented for those interested in the technical aspects of the models or in making further applications.