1. UK NTA Overview

2. Outline Data sources Working directories Spreadsheets & code
Issues we are aware of

3. Data sources (I) Nationally representative surveys
Expenditure and Food Survey
Measures consumption & income, including benefits of all kinds for HH’s & constituent individuals
(Same survey so no imputation needed)
Includes enrollment information about school & higher & further education
General Household Survey
Use this for measures of health utilization
Wealth and Asset Survey
Use this for measures of individual wealth
(Excludes Northern Ireland)

4. Data sources (II) Administrative data National Accounts Data
Use OECD data for relative cost of different types of schooling
Use Department of Health data for health profiles
National Accounts Data
Except for Worksheets 3 & 4, use Blue Book via OECD database, obtained from Gretchen
For Worksheets 3 & 4, use Blue Book data entered in directly using series numbers in the Spreadsheet (& check the balance!)

5. Working directories Code & spreadsheets in Dropbox directory
Within each year folder there should be the following files
Each year has a folder

6. A rather messy symbiosis of STATA & Excel
GHS utilization data for Health Profiles
EFS: derive YL etc, CFx, calc imputed rentals, CFE, CFH, TGx, YKx, inter-HH transfers
Smooth the profiles, calculate macro-control adjustments, apply these to unsmoothed profiles
Calculate intra-HH transfers
WAS: calculate wealth profiles
DoH controls & age profiles for Health Profiles
OECD data: relative prices of primary, secondary, tertiary public education
Macro Controls Spreadsheet produces .csv export file
Use Asset_Based_reallocations file to do final calculations
STATA
EXCEL

7. Some issues where we may need to investigate a little more (I)
Using the magnificent ntasmooth Gaussian kernel smoother vs prescribed alternative
Transfers to RoW in Macro Controls spreadsheet
Treatment of housing benefit (cash or in-kind?)
Treatment of Carer’s allowance
Students in residences
Attribution of property taxes
Tax credits & child benefits
Add code for outflow tax profiles

8. Some issues where we may need to investigate a little more (II)
Alimony or child support?
Student financing for students outside the HH
Definition of HH
Align to macro-controls both before & after smoothing & transfers calculated
Weighting – HH vs individual