# A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Burkina Faso with Agricultural Activities and Household Groups Disaggregated by Agroecological Zones

## TL;DR

This paper presents a detailed 2019 economic model for Burkina Faso, focusing on agriculture and household groups across different regions.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a new, disaggregated SAM for Burkina Faso with agricultural and household details by agroecological zones.

## Key findings

- The SAM includes 91 accounts, covering activities, commodities, and factors of production.
- It differentiates labor by skill and includes land as a separate account.
- The SAM is freely available for economic analyses across agroecological zones.

## Abstract

A social accounting matrix (SAM) is a square matrix that captures the circular flows of all economic transactions within a country at a given time. It serves as a reference database for calibrating single-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to analyse the economy-wide effects of policy changes and other external shocks. We developed a SAM for Burkina Faso for 2019, adopting a top-down approach, first developing a macro-SAM and further disaggregating it to obtain a micro-SAM. The SAM depicts land as a separate account, differentiates labour by skill level, and disaggregates agriculture and households by agroecological zones. The SAM comprises 91 accounts: 47 activities, 19 commodities, margins, five factors of production, 12 household groups, three tax accounts (sales, production, and income), government, enterprises, savings-investments, and the rest of the world. The SAM is freely accessible to support economy-wide analyses for Burkina Faso, specifically, analyses across agroecological zones.