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Distributional Measures Across Household Groups in a National Accounts Framework: Results from an Experimental Cross-country Exercise on Household Income, Consumption and Saving

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  • Maryse Fesseau

    (OECD)

  • Maria Liviana Mattonetti

    (Eurostat)

Abstract

Valuable information exists already on household economic resources. The national accounts provide aggregate measures and micro sources (surveys, administrative records, and censuses) can be used to derive measures of the distribution across households groups. Over the years, however, macro and micro statisticians have tended to work separately leading to sometimes divergent results which can cause problem to users. In 2011, the OECD and Eurostat launched a joint Expert Group to carry out a study on the feasibility of compiling measures of the distribution of income, consumption and wealth across household groups that are consistent with national accounts definitions and totals. As part of the Expert Group, national experts from 16 countries performed experimental calculations using all the detailed micro and macro information available at the national level and following the same framework and methodology. The experimental results obtained are presented in this paper. They show disparities in household income and consumption, including Social Transfers in Kind, and in household saving for different groups of households: by income quintile; by main source of income; and by household type. The main methodological issues related to this exercise are described. The paper also illustrates the number of assumptions that are required to produce estimates on distribution across households consistent with national accounts definitions and totals. Les données macro-économiques des comptes nationaux fournissent des données agrégées sur le revenu, la consommation et l’épargne de l’ensemble des ménages. Les sources microéconomiques (enquêtes, données administratives et recensement) informent sur la manière dont le revenu et la consommation sont réparties entre les ménages. Au fil des années cependant, les statisticiens micro et macro ont eu tendance à travailler séparément conduisant parfois à des résultats divergents et rendant le travail d’analyse compliqué pour les utilisateurs. En 2011, l’OCDE et Eurostat ont lancé un groupe de travail conjoint afin d’étudier la possibilité de produire des indicateurs sur la distribution des ressources économiques des ménages qui soient cohérents avec les totaux et les définitions des comptes nationaux. Dans le cadre de ce groupe de travail, des experts nationaux de 16 pays ont produit des estimations combinant les informations micro et macro disponibles au niveau national et en suivant une méthode harmonisée. Les résultats, encore expérimentaux, sont présentés dans ce papier. Ils portent sur les inégalités de revenu, de consommation, incluant les transferts sociaux en nature, et d’épargne pour différents groupes de ménages selon le quintile de revenu, la principale source de revenu ou le type de ménage. Les principales difficultés méthodologiques rencontrées dans ce type d’exercice sont présentées. Le papier détaille également les hypothèses nécessaires pour produire des indicateurs de distribution cohérents avec les totaux et définitions des comptes nationaux.

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  • Maryse Fesseau & Maria Liviana Mattonetti, 2013. "Distributional Measures Across Household Groups in a National Accounts Framework: Results from an Experimental Cross-country Exercise on Household Income, Consumption and Saving," OECD Statistics Working Papers 2013/4, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:stdaaa:2013/4-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k3wdjqr775f-en
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    1. Jorrit Zwijnenburg, 2022. "The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of the Distribution," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 20(1), pages 245-254, March.
    2. Stefan Ederer & Stefan Humer & Stefan Jestl & Emanuel List, 2020. "Distributional National Accounts (DINA) with Household Survey Data: Methodology and Results for European Countries," wiiw Working Papers 180, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw.
    3. Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman, 2018. "Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 133(2), pages 553-609.
    4. Arjan Bruil (CBS) & Céline van Essen & Wouter Leenders & Arjan Lejour & Jan Möhlmann & Simon Rabaté, 2022. "Inequality and Redistribution in the Netherlands," CPB Discussion Paper 436, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    5. Debra Bloch & Jean-Marc Fournier, 2018. "The deterioration of the public spending mix during the global financial crisis: Insights from new indicators," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1465, OECD Publishing.
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    7. Martin Weale & Andrew Aitken, 2021. "Deflation of Distributional National Accounts," Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers ESCoE DP-2021-01, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE).
    8. Nolan, Brian & Thewissen, Stefan & Roser, Max, 2016. "GDP per capita versus median household income: What gives rise to divergence over time?," INET Oxford Working Papers 2016-03, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.

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