Alvaro Fuentes, CEPAL
Brechas conceptuales y cuantitativas entre encuestas y cuentas de hogares
Seminar on reconciliation of information sources for the measurement of income distribution
12 October 2023|Event
Inequality is one of the outstanding features of Latin American societies and overcoming it is a key challenge for development. Household surveys, the main source for measuring income inequality, may be affected by the lack of information on households with very high incomes, as well as by possible under-reporting of income. As a result, measures of inequality based exclusively on this source of information may underestimate the magnitude of the phenomenon.
To capture income inequality more fully, it is possible to combine information from household surveys with information from income tax records, especially relevant for higher income earners, and with national accounts, which provide a frame of reference on the total amount of national gross income that is distributed to households.
ECLAC Statistics Division implements the project "Inequality: Innovative approaches for examining inequality through integration of different data sources in Latin America and the Caribbean", with the support of the United Nations Development Account (13th tranche). The project addresses the possible integration of income data from household surveys, tax records and national accounts, to produce estimates of income inequality.
Objectives
- Review the progress in the incorporation of distributive elements in the SNA 2025
- Learn about the methodologies to measure inequality by combining data from surveys, tax records and National Accounts
- Analyze the challenges for the production of household accounts and their timely updating
- Identify the usefulness of income tax data for measuring inequality
- Discuss possible areas for improvement
12 Oct 2023
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Welcome and introduction
09:00 to 09:15- Rolando Ocampo, Director of the Statistics Division of ECLAC
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Distributive accounts and measurement of inequality
09:15 to 11:00- Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Directorate for Statistics and Data, OECDDistributional results in line with National AccountsMark Morgan, World Inequality LabCuentas nacionales distributivas: Aspectos metodológicos y resultados para América LatinaFacundo Alvaredo, World Inequality Lab (WIL)A brief assessment of the Distributional National Accounts Agenda in Latin America
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Recent experiences with distributive accounts
11:20 to 12:20- Mariam Alfaro, Banco Central de Costa RicaCuentas nacionales distributivas: Experiencia de Costa RicaIvette Fernández, Banco Central de ChileDistribución de la cuenta de Hogares en Chile
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Construction of the household account
12:20 to 15:10- Susana Kidyba, Experta en cuentas nacionalesCuenta de Hogares. Aspectos conceptuales y metodológicosJosé Robles Franco, INEI de PerúCuentas de Hogares: Fuentes, métodos, resultadosÁngel Pineda, INEGIFuentes y métodos para construir la Cuenta de Hogares en México
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Uses of administrative and tax records on income
15:10 to 17:10- Ignacio Flores, World InequalityLab (WIL)Reconciliando fuentes en la práctica: Problemas, soluciones y más problemasMaría Rosa Cañete & Raymer Díaz, Ministerio de Economía, Planificación y Desarrollo de República Dominicana (MEPYD)Retos institucionales y comunicacionales para impulsar el desarrollo de nuevas metodologías para la medición de la distribución del ingresoCharles Bee & Jonathan Rothbaum, US Census BureauExperimental National Welfare Statistics (NEWS): combining administrative and survey data to improve income and poverty statisticsAna Montoya, DANE de ColombiaIntegración de Encuestas con Registros Administrativos
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