This paper focuses on the construction and application of a regional input-output table for Yazd province in the centre of Iran. This is the first regional input-output table, which will reveal the economic structure of the region and subsequently to be employed for regional planning by Plan and Budget Organization, Yazd Division, in Iran. The table covers twenty two sectors with the separate export and import vectors which is the main advantage of the table as compared to the other tables constructed so far in Iran.

Constructing a survey based regional input-output table is a difficult task especially if the required data for certain region have not been already prepared. According to the literature, it is observed that there are variety of non-survey and semi survey techniques. In the case of Yazd, a semi survey based method has been used to construct a twenty two sector input-output table in which almost eighty percent of necessary data are survey-based and for the rest of data we employed the necessary data collected by survey, data recorded, research projects and finally from the experts.