Overstated income elastricity for "other industry"

[djvdven]

When checking GCAM 7 scenarios with actual trends, I notice that the energy demand for "other industry" increases extraordinary fast in GCAM. Looking into the issue, I noticed that the CSV that defines this income elasticity as a function of total output per capita (input\gcamdata\inst\extdata\socioeconomics\A32.inc_elas_output.csv), has not been changed since GCAM 5, but in the meantime, many sectors have been separated from "other industry". As a result, global 2015 output for "other industry" is around 2.5 times lower in GCAM 7 than GCAM 5. However, not having changed that CSV implies that income elasticities are around the same magnitude higher in GCAM 7, leading to fast demand growth, which may not be realistic.

[pkyle]

Thanks for the heads up! Yeah that underlying table A32.inc_elas_output.csv should have been getting updated each time another industry got disaggregated, but it was overlooked. fyi @pralitp