Which Database and Which Estimates for Forecasting Economic Performance?
Isabel B. Anderson
Table 1
The Rate of Growth of Real GDP, Saskatchewan, 1984-95
(year over year percent change)
| Year | SC
fc | Sc mp | Sk
BofS | SC Cdn mp |
| 1985 | 3.60 | 2.10 | 7.50 | 4.77 |
| 1986 | 7.99 | 7.84 | 7.50 | 3.32 |
| 1987 | -0.53 | 0.01 | -0.32 | 4.17 |
| 1988 | -5.94 | -2.86 |
-3.84 | 4.98 |
| 1989 | 1.95 | 3.28 | 5.02 | 2.45 |
| 1990 | 6.45 | 9.11 | 4.30 | -0.23 |
| 1991 | -0.48 | 1.36 | 0.42 | -1.79 |
| 1992 | -4.00 | -5.02 | -2.07 | 0.77 |
| 1993 | 4.02 | 3.08 | 5.17 | 2.22 |
| 1994 | 4.82 | 2.89 | 5.59 | 4.07 |
| 1995 | 0.77 | 0.53 | 1.95 | 2.33 |
| Mean | 1.69
| 2.03 | 2.84 | 2.46 |
Note: Column 2 refers to the Statistics Canada
Provincial GDP estimates of real GDP for Saskatchewan; column 3 refers to
the Statistics Canada Canadian Economic Observer estimates of
real GDP for Saskatchewan; column 4 refers to the Saskatchewan Bureau of
Statistics estimates of real GDP; column 5 refers to the Statistics
Canada (Canadian Economic Observer, or Department of Finance)
market price estimate of real GDP for Canada.
Source: Canada, Department of Finance, August, 1996; Canada, Statistics
Canada 11-210-XPB; Canada, Statistics Canada, 15-203-XPB; Saskatchewan,
Bureau of Statistics, 1996.
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