Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world

Facundo Alvaredo (1, 2) , Anthony Atkinson (3) , Lucas Chancel (4, 1, 2) , Thomas Piketty (1, 5, 2) , Emmanuel Saez (6) , Gabriel Zucman (7)

1 PSE - Paris School of Economics
2 WIL - World Inequality Lab
3 NUFFIELD COLLEGE - Nuffield College
4 IDDRI - Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales
5 PJSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
6 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]
7 LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science

The purpose of these DINA Guidelines is to present the concepts, data sources and methods used in the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world, http://WID.world). These Guidelines are subject to revision and will be regularly updated on-line. Before we describe the organization of these Guidelines, it is useful to start with a brief history of WID.world.

Mots clés: DINA; Distributional National Accounts; inequality; methodology; income; wealth; national accounts; fiscal income; inequality measurement World Inequality Lab

Domaines: Economies et finances

Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony Atkinson, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, et al.. Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world. 2016. ⟨halshs-02794308⟩