Distributional national account estimates for household income and consumption: methodological issues and experimental results - Products Statistical working papers

Micro and macro economic statistics are built on different frameworks. They differ in their goals, economic concepts and the way data are produced. The System of National Accounts assures comprehensive, coherent and internationally comparable figures for the household sector at the macroeconomic level. Only micro economic statistics, however, can provide information on the distribution of economic resources among individual or groups of households. The OECD, Eurostat and several countries joined efforts to progress on a methodology that bridges the differences, producing estimates on household income and consumption that are in line with national accounts aggregates, but build onto micro data. In this final report of the Joint OECD-Eurostat Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts framework (EG DNA), we describe the methodology and present some experimental distributional national accounts for the household sector.