Note that the aggregation of sectors (from 130 to 56) did not affect our findings.
A concordance matrix to convert from the 343 to the seven sector model is supplied in Appendix C. Aggregation of sectors was based on a condensed version of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification Australian Bureau of Statisticss 2006).
Given the agricultural emphasis of this study, there is no aggregation of agricultural sectors, food sectors, and industries related to agricultural sectors, while the other non-agriculture sectors are aggregated.
Finally, it was shown that the results of the model could be used by the air traffic managers in order to help them decide the necessary grouping (aggregation) or collapsing (disaggregation) of sectors (sectorization).
For illustrative purposes, Figs. 2, 3 and 4 present the in-sample estimated output variables for an aggregation of the 45 sectors to 6 sectors (resources, construction, non-durable manufacturing, durable manufacturing, TCU (transportations, communications and utilities), trade, FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate), services and government).
With respect to sectoral aggregation, 76 sectors of AIO (78 sectors of the 1995 table) are aggregated into 22 sectors which are shown in the Additional file 1.
The empirical literature has shown that elasticity estimates vary substantially and depend on the level of sector aggregation, the geographical region, the time period, and the applied model specification (Koetse et al. 2008).
According to our aggregation scheme, sector 1 is the food grain sector.
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The spatial and temporal aggregation of disturbances in the Cairns and Townsville sectors up to 2002 resulted in four inshore reefs and three mid-shelf reefs having low coral cover.
