9. Micro-macro integration (WP4 - inactive in 2016)

Work Package 4: Micro-Macro integration

A specific area where data integration is useful concerns the reconciliation of statistics from accounting frameworks like National or Environmental accounts on the one hand, and figures from related primary statistics that have fed into these frameworks on the other hand. Due to the process of balancing, conceptual adjustments and other treatments it is often difficult, sometimes even impossible, to relate macro-figures and micro-figures that should in principle describe the same phenomena. There is a clear added value in joint analysis of such micro-macro statistics and interest in this area is growing. An area where already some progress has been achieved is that of the distribution of income and wealth for the household sector, including consumption patterns

This type of integration might be of potential use for the many new challenges that come from the needs to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals.

Activities:

• Identifying potential sources and statistics that can benefit from micro-macro integration
• Road test existing guidelines in particular national settings and review, refine and further develop them
  • Identifying potential sources and statistics that can benefit from micro‐macro integration
  • Road test existing guidelines in particular national settings and review, refine and further develop them