The German Sport Satellite Accounts (SSA)

Gerd Ahlert

No 13-4, GWS Discussion Paper Series from GWS - Institute of Economic Structures Research

Abstract: The Federal Institute for Sports Science (BISp) commissioned the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS) to set up a sport satellite accounts (SSA) for the reporting year 2008 according to the international recommendations. Looking on the results of the German SSA for the reference year 2008 identifies that the direct gross value added of sports sum up to a total of almost 73.1 billion Euros. This means that in 2008, sport-related services represented 3.3% of the German gross value added to the amount of 2,217 billion Euros. Some 1.765 million people were directly employed in the sport-related industries contained in the SSA. That was almost 4.4% of the total of employed people, 40.348 million.

Keywords: Satellite Accounts; National Accounting; Sports Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2013
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