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.
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Supplementary material: "Review of NTA from SNA perspective," by Jan W. van Tongeren Tongeren.2013.SNA Perspective
United Nations NTTA manual
Again working with NTA members, the United Nations issued the National Time Transfer Accounts Manual: Measuring and Analysing the Gendered Economy in 2024. This manual helps analysts supplement their view of the generational economy by using time use survey data to measure unpaid care work, labor traditionally understood as "women's work" and in which women still specialize around the world. Combining NTA and NTTA gives a complete picture of the generational and gendered economies, and fully accounts for the costs of children and elders, and the contributions of women and older persons.
Download: NTTA Manual
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.