Saving concordance and mapping

Household net saving is a balancing item between household disposable income less household final expenditure, plus an adjustment for the changes in pension entitlements. Changes in pension entitlements are included in net saving of households as they represent the property income of the pension asset holders earned on their behalf by pension fund administrators. That amount is included with the saving of households rather than the saving of pension plans. Changes in pension entitlements also reflect the contributions to employee registered pension plans minus withdrawals.

The DHEA mapping for net saving is shown in the table below.

Table 1
Distributions of Household Economic Accounts (DHEA), net saving mapping between the System of Macroeconomic Accounts (MEA), the Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M) and the Survey of Household Spending (SHS)
Table summary
Distributions of Household Economic Accounts (DHEA), net saving mapping between the System of Macroeconomic Accounts (MEA), the Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M) and the Survey of Household Spending (SHS).
DHEA net saving category Distribution variable/proxy from SPSD/M and SHS
Household disposable income
  • See table in Section 5.2 for detail
Less: household final consumption
  • See tables in section 5.3 for detail
Plus: Change in pension entitlements
  • Equivalent to current transfers paid to corporations minus current transfers received from corporations (See table in section 5.2 for detail)
Source: Statistics Canada, System of Macroeconomic Accounts, Social Policy Simulation Database and Model and the Survey of Household Spending.
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