Transcript United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Results of the electronic consultation on the draft Canberra Group Handbook on Household Income Statistics, Second.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Division
Results of the electronic consultation on the draft
Canberra Group Handbook on Household Income
Statistics, Second Edition
(Doc. no. ECE/CES/2011/3/Add.3)
Conference of European Statisticians
Plenary session 14-16 June 2011
Overview of country consultation
38 replies from 33 NSOs and 5 organisations
High level of support to the endorsement of the draft
No one objected to endorsement
Comments and suggestions have been addressed by the
Task Force and will be reflected in the final version
The Note to the CES includes:
Annex 1: Specific comments and response by the TF
Annex 2: List of amendments
Annex 3: Suggestions for the work programme of the
OECD Expert Group on micro statistics on household
income, consumption and wealth
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Main issues and amendments
Clarification of conceptual and operational
definitions of income and their relations to the 2001
CGH, the ICLS and the SNA
Clarification of the deduction of interest payments in
the calculation of housing services
Table 1 ‘Micro and macro household income
concepts and measurement’ in Appendix 2 will be
extended with SNA codes
All country specific comments for the examples and
the annexes will be incorporated
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Suggestions for the OECD Expert Group
Broad support for the need of integrated framework for
measuring household income, consumption and wealth
Provide coherent definitions and consistent system of
stocks and flows
Show how income is formed and redistributed
Address problems with response burden and growing
non-response rates
Investigate the possible use of Time Use Survey data
Provide methods for integrated analysis by the users
Discuss pension wealth and income from pensions
Consider the gender dimension
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Proposal
The Conference is invited to endorse the Canberra
Group Handbook on Household Income Statistics,
Second Edition, subject to the amendments
presented in doc. ECE/CES/2011/3/Add.3
If endorsed, the Handbook will be published by the
end of 2011
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