Giving more prominence to households AEG New York, 23 -25 April 2012 Introduction Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi report (five recommendations on households) – When evaluating material well-being, look at.
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Giving more prominence to households
AEG New York, 23 -25 April 2012
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Introduction
Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi report (five recommendations on households)
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When evaluating material well-being, look at income and consumptions rather than production
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Emphasize the household perspective Consider income and consumption jointly with wealth Give more prominence to the distribution of income, consumption and wealth
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Broaden income measures to non-market activities
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Plans and initiatives
Giving more prominence to the publication of household data
Distribution of income, consumption and wealth
Understanding the drivers of differences between changes in GDP and changes in household disposable income
Measuring household services produced for own final use
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Giving more prominence to the publication of household data
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Publication of household data
Focus usually on GDP-growth
Household (adjusted) disposable income may provide a better reflection of material well-being
Possible enhancements:
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Timely compilation of quarterly and annual sector accounts on households
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Put more emphasis on households when publishing NA data => timely press release
Possible issues:
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Combined sector Households and NPISHs Definition of disposable income?
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Distribution of income, consumption and wealth
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Early 2011 - Two Expert Groups on households economic resources were established following the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi recommendations OECD Expert Group on Micro Statistics on Income, Consumption and Wealth (EG ICW), aiming at: – Pursuing methodological work to develop standards and guidelines for measuring household wealth – Proposing a framework for joint analysis of micro data on households income, consumption and wealth OECD-Eurostat Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework (EG DNA), aiming at: – Using existing micro sources to produce indicators of disparities by group of households consistent with SNA totals – feasibility study 7 7
EG ICW EG DNA
Membership: 17 NSOs, UNECE, Eurostat, ECB, LIS, country experts, OECD (secretariat) Chair: Mr Bob McColl (AUS) Financial/In-Kind support: AUS, CH, IT 2 meetings: March and December 2011 Membership: 25 NSOs, ECB, LIS, OECD and Eurostat (both secretariat) Chair: Mr Wim Van Nunspeet (NL) Financial/In-Kind support: FR 2 meetings: March and December 2011 8
Goal of EG DNA
EG DNA practical aim: breakdown of household income and final consumption according to NA by household group
Household type
HH group_1 HH group_2 HH group_3 HH group_4 HH group_5
Total resident population
Totals, in National Currency
Wages and salaries ….
Social benefits received NA totals ….
Current taxes paid ….
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Adjusted disposable income (B7)
Food Housing Health ….
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Final Actual consumption (P4) Saving (B8=B7-P4) Saving ratio (=B8/B7)
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Goal of EG DNA (cont.)
Produce distributional information
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with macro-totals – Average household (adjusted) disposable income, final consumption and saving by HH group – Stucture of households disposable income by HH group 10
Goal of EG DNA (cont.)
Household groups to be dinstinguished Household composition and age of each adult – Single, > 65 years, without children – Single, < 65 years, without children – Single, with children – Two adults, < 65 years, without children – Two adults, one adult . 65 years, without children – Two adults, with children – Other Equivalised income quintiles 11
Goal of EG DNA (cont.)
Household groups to be dinstinguished Main source of income – Owners of unincorporated enterprises with paid employees – Owners of unincorporated enterprises without paid employees – Employees – Pensioners – Recipient of transfer income (other than pensions) and property income 12
Main issues
Gaps between micro and macro measures: Differences in scope: – Macro: half EG DNA countries include NPISHs – Micro: most micro sources exclude collective households Differences in definition of income: – Imputed rents owner-occupied dwellings – Social transfers in kind – Property income attributed to insurance policy holders – Fisim Measurement issues: – Adjustment for underground economy – Interest and dividends received 13
Progress and future work
EG DNA: a work in two main steps
Step 1:
Taking stock of information on household income, consumption and wealth; description and comparison of micro and macro sources
From March to December 2011
Step 2
: • Breakdown of households according to an agreed methodology • Proposal for new indicators on income, consumption and saving disparities
From November 2011 to December 2012
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Progress and future work (cont.)
End February: agreement on common template for step 2 1-3 August (Boston): third EG DNA meeting Discussion of the first national results according to common template 5-11 August (Boston): IARIW conference Paper on micro-macro comparisons End of 2012: final report of the Expert Group 15 15
Understanding the drivers of differences between changes in GDP and changes in household disposable income
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From GDP to HH disposable income
Periods of consistent diverging developments
Research project into the analysis of main drivers: (re)distribution of income between domestic sectors: labour/capital shares, the size of the government, role of rents and corporate profits, etc.
Both in current prices and constant prices
First result: conceptual paper on the framework (to be discussed at the AEG)
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Measuring household services produced for own final use
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Household services produced for own final use
Services produced by households for own final use excluded from the SNA (except dwelling services), although they share many of the characteristics of the same kind of market services
Main problems:
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Valuation in combination with the sheer size of the relevant services (replacement cost versus opportunity cost)
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Delineation of the relevant services Collection of underlying data
Issues in relation to (material) well-being and international comparability
Consensus: Keep on excluding them from the core set of national accounts
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Issues for discussion
Main (general) recommendations of the AEG on the presentation/publication of household data?
Main recommendations of the AEG related to the compilation of distributional information?
How does the AEG look upon the initiative to analyze differences in changes of GDP and changes of HH disposable income?
What is the advice of the AEG in relation to non market services of households?
Does the AEG have other suggestions?
International alignment and communication?
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