The objective of this paper is to estimate domestic production and import ratios of foodstuffs for the school lunch sector using input-output tables for Japan in 1995, 2000, 2005, 2011, and 2015, and comparing them to those for the eating and drinking places sector. Total value-added and total import coefficients for school lunch and eating and drinking places were estimated. The result includes that a unit of production of the school lunch sector provided more value-added to, especially, domestic agriculture, and domestic agricultural products sectors than eating and drinking places gave, according to the subtotals of those total value-added coefficients.
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