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Population in the National Accounts: distributions by main source of income

This dataset accompanies the tables ‘Household income and saving in the National Accounts: distributions by main source of income’ and ‘Household consumption in the National Accounts: distributions by main source of income’ and presents the number of households, individuals, and consumption units for each main source of income category.<br><br>

The main source of income is the income item that makes the largest contribution to the income of the household. Four categories are shown: wages and salaries, income from self-employment, net property income (mainly interest, dividends and rent), and current transfers received such as social benefits and social transfers in kind.<br><br>

Results per consumption unit are obtained by dividing each household’s result by the number of consumption units, reflecting its consumption needs, for example by applying the standard OECD-modified equivalence scale, counting the first adult as 1, any additional people aged 14 and over as 0.5 and all children under 14 as 0.3.<br><br>

The default view of this table is for a single country (‘Reference area’ filter) and single year (‘Time period’ filter). In cases where countries appear to be greyed-out, data may be available for earlier years, and these can be selected by selecting a different start and end year in the ‘Time period’ filter. <br><br>

For more information on the (compilation of) these results, please see the <a href="https://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/household-distributional-results-in-line-with-national-accounts-experimental-statistics.htm"> webpage on household distributional results </a>.