A GENDERED 1993-94 SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX FOR BANGLADESH

This working paper documents the construction of a 1993-94 Social Accounting Matrix(SAM) for Bangladesh. 1 The SAM distinguishes 10 agricultural sectors—including twodifferent kinds of rice technology—and 19 manufacturing sectors, out of 43 sectors intotal. It also differentiates between twelve socio-economic groups, allowing detailedanalysis of household welfare and poverty. The SAM has ten factors of production: onetype of capital, one type of land and eight different types of labor which are disaggregatedby both level of education and gender. The innovative feature of the SAM is that itseparates out female and male labor value-added for each educational level and in eachsector of the economy, providing a base for gender-sensitive analyses of policy changes.The SAM is estimated with a cross-entropy approach, which makes efficient use of allavailable data in a framework that incorporates prior information and constraints.