Comparison of micro and macro frameworks

The main framework developed for analysis of income at the macro level is the System of National Accounts (SNA). explained that the micro and macro frameworks used to compile household income, consumption and wealth statistics have the same broad underlying concepts, but that there are differences reflecting the different purposes of the two types of data and the data sources used to compile them. B.1 provides a detailed element by element comparison of the definitions embodied in this Framework and those of the SNA.