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OECD Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth

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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.

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Standard concepts, definitions and classifications for household wealth statistics

This chapter describes the conceptual framework for micro statistics on household wealth. The basic concepts and general principles for these statistics are introduced along with key definitions, standard components and standard classifications. The term wealth, as used here, covers both the assets and liabilities of households.

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