Attempting to modify industry data

Implan guru's. I am working with the Hawaii model and attempting to modify it to better represent a different island economy. I have modified all the industry data to what I want and then re-constructed the model. Now, however, my multipliers are messed up. Something I have done has now modified the induced effects to teh point where many of them are negative. Similarly, my indirect effects are now very low with the end result that my total effects multiplier are in a range from 0.97 to 1.05 Note, when modifying the industry data, I did unlock the intermediate effects as I edited industry totals for employment, output and the value added categories. My best guess is that I have not changed the final demand categories - I notice that my total value added has changed - which affects total final demand - but that the categories of final demand (households, government) have not changed. And it seems that, to make up for the extra spending needed, imports have increased significantly. So what do I need to do to rebalance things??
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  • The study area final demands are fixed no matter how you change value added (as you have noticed). The amount of goods bought locally are fixed by the trade flow model. If you increase output for the sectors, there will be less (proportionately) bought from local sources and vice versa - this would affect the indirect effects. If you increased output, then you may wish to change to the econometric RPC calculations. Industry payments to employee compensation can be customized, however, employee compensation distribution to households and governments (taxes) are fixed in the SAM. The difference would be payments to trade (imported or exported - if negative - compensation). But I am not sure how it would create negative induced effects. If you want, I can take a quick look at it. Zip it and send the model to support@implan.com and not in the message to route it to me.
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