Balance and factor models as a tool for analysis and forecasting structure of the economy
The subject of this work is the presentation of methods and results of the development of special tools for forecasting and analytical studies designed to ensure the formation of quantitative indicators that characterize the material proportions of the economy. Methodical and instrumental problems associated with the formalization of quantitative interrelationships between macroeconomic information presented by data on individual functional elements of final demand (used GDP), on the one hand, and indicators of output volumes of individual industries (types of economic activity), on the other hand, are considered. The questions connected with construction of retrospective and forecast indicators of interbranch relations are analyzed.