Table 1.
Input‒output variable selection and symbols.
Level-I indicators | Level-Ⅱ indicators | Level-Ⅲ indicators | Symbol |
---|---|---|---|
Input | Capital stock | Fixed assets investment | K |
Labor force | Employed persons | L | |
Energy input | Electricity consumption | E | |
Desirable output | Economic output | Provincial real gross domestic product (GDP) | Y |
Undesirable output | Environmental pollution | Industrial wastewater emissions | C |
Industrial sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions | |||
Industrial dust emissions |