Methodology

United Nations NTA manual

Working closely with NTA members, the United Nations issued the National Transfer Accounts manual: Measuring and analysing the generational economy in 2013." The manual was produced as part of a United Nations Development Account project (ROA 167). It is designed to support capacity-development efforts, assisting researchers from countries all over the world to construct National Transfer Accounts and to interpret and analyze them as a guide to policy. Building on work carried out for more than a decade by members of the NTA global network, the new NTA manual presents the concepts, methods, and estimation procedures for measuring financial flows over the life cycle.

Download: NTA manual 2013.

Update: The linked file has been updated on 10 July 2014 to include corrections in Appendix E.

Go to the UN website

Supplementary material: "Review of NTA from SNA perspective," by Jan W. van Tongeren Tongeren.2013.SNA Perspective

NTA data, evaluation, and the NTA Database

NTA Variables: This page contains a complete list of variables and identifying codes that are used in the NTA data base. Definitions and relations between variables are also provided.

Excel template for creating country tables: country tables

Automatic checks for age profile data: Age profile checks

Download: NTA manual 2022 Russian.

Archive Methods

Methods : These pages contains NTA methods used in 2012 and earlier. They have not been updated to insure consistency with the methods released in September 2013.