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This paper explores how the rich set of outputs provided by the National Accounts can be expanded to provide new uses for analysts. It extends the existing supply and use tables to look at the incomes, outlays, savings, and fiscal transfers of the household sector by income quintile and other household attributes. The authors also recast existing National Accounts data to provide an alternative perspective on household savings. They also extend existing accounts to show product taxes by type of expenditure and type of tax.
The paper was written several years ago and presented in different international forums. It makes use of data for the year 2000. It has been circulated for some years in mimeo format. Since requests are continually being made for the paper version, it is being published in the Economic Analysis Research Paper Series in order to give users greater access to its findings.
The publication of this paper coincides with the upcoming revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA), whereby a number of adjustments implemented will become permanent fixtures of the CSNA. As a result, some of the adjustments proposed in the paper will no longer apply once the revised CSNA data are released.
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