In this paper, we transform a competitive input-output table into a non-competitive one based on the transformation method of input-output association (Ma et al. 2019). The core idea is to assume that the proportion of imports included in the sectoral intermediate and final use is the same as the proportion of total imports in total output. Then, that ratio is used to further split the intermediate and final use module into intra-regional and imported products (Guan et al. 2020; Pu et al. 2020). The transformed table is shown in Table 1, and we assume that there are n sectors in the region.
Table 1
Simplified table of non-competitive inputs and outputs
| Intermediate use | End Use | Import | Total output | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sector 1 Sector 2 … Sector n | Consumption | Capital | Export | ||||
| Provincial | Sector 1 |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Products | Sector 2 | ||||||
| Intermediate | … | ||||||
| Inputs | Sector n | ||||||
| Imported | Sector 1 |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Products | Sector 2 | ||||||
| Intermediate | … | ||||||
| Inputs | Sector n | ||||||
| Workers' Compensation |  | ||||||
| Other value added |  | ||||||
| Value added |  | ||||||
| Total input |  | ||||||
| Intermediate use | End Use | Import | Total output | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sector 1 Sector 2 … Sector n | Consumption | Capital | Export | ||||
| Provincial | Sector 1 | | | | | | |
| Products | Sector 2 | ||||||
| Intermediate | … | ||||||
| Inputs | Sector n | ||||||
| Imported | Sector 1 | | | | | | |
| Products | Sector 2 | ||||||
| Intermediate | … | ||||||
| Inputs | Sector n | ||||||
| Workers' Compensation | | ||||||
| Other value added | | ||||||
| Value added | | ||||||
| Total input | | ||||||