Methods

Table of Contents

I. Constructing National Transfers Accounts Methodology

• 1. Overview

• 2. Economic Lifecycle

• 2.1 Aggregate Controls

• 2.2 Estimating Economic Lifecycle

• 2.2.1 Private Consumption

• 2.2.2 Public Consumption

• 2.2.3 Labor Income

• 2.2.4 Smoothing

• 3. Public Reallocations

• 3.1 Public Transfers

• 3.2 Public Asset-Based Reallocations

• 3.3 Using Government Financial Statistics to Construct NTA

• 4. Private Reallocations

• 4.1 Private Transfers

• 4.2 Private Asset-Based Reallocations

• 5. Appendix

• 5.1 Stata Codes

II. Applications

• 1. Simulation Models

• 2. Calculating Support Ratio

• 3. Calculating First Demographic Dividend

III. Other Methodology

• 1. Population Methods

• 2. Other Methods

Recently changed methods

This is a draft version of an NTA manual. Comments and suggested revisions are welcome.

NTA Manual V1 Draft

Spreadsheet for Public-Asset Reallocation, RA, was changed on Sept 22 2008

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