By using Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality as the baseline, this paper analyses the relationship between statistics and politics grounding on the national accounts in Turkey. One of the dimensions of the governmentality concerns the form of knowledge that arises from and informs the rational and thoughtful activity of governing. This episteme of government crystallizes what forms of thought, knowledge, expertise, and means of calculation or rationality are employed in practices of governing. All the sampling methods refer to a systematic structure that provides information about almost all of the topics related to population (mainly that of national income). In this respect, increases the ability of governing the society; therefore all governments contribute to the transformation of the national income accounts as a statistical tool. This paper additionally proposes the elastic structure of Social Accounting Matrix, which allows formation nonstandard frameworks, creates an opportunity to go beyond the governmentality.
