OECD Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth
This publication presents an internationally agreed set of guidelines for producing micro statistics on household wealth, It addresses the common conceptual, definitional and practical problems that countries face in producing such statistics, and are meant to improve the comparability of the currently available country data. The Guidelines, prepared by an international expert group working under the auspices of the OECD, propose a set of standard concepts, definitions and classifications for micro wealth statistics, and cover different phases in the statistical production process, including sources and methods for measuring particular forms of wealth, best practice in using household surveys or other sources to compile wealth statistics, the development of analytic measures, the dissemination of data, and data quality assurance.
Preface
These Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth presents, for the first time, an internationally agreed set of guidelines for producing micro statistics on household wealth. They fill an important gap in the existing international guidance on measuring the various dimensions of people’s economic well-being. They address the common conceptual, definitional and practical problems that countries face in producing such statistics, and are meant to improve the comparability of the currently available country data. They are also needed to facilitate the integration of micro statistics on household wealth with those relating to the other dimensions of economic well-being, i.e. income and consumption.