This webinar provides an overview of the household sector accounts and how their income, consumption and savings relates to their accumulation of wealth as well as the interconnectedness between households and other sectors. The presentation also shows how the Distributions of Household Economic Accounts blends the macroeconomic accounts with social data to help shed light on the financial well-being and vulnerabilities of different households in Canada.
Assistant Director in the National Economic Accounts Division, Statistics Canada
Amanda Sinclair
Amanda Sinclair is an Assistant Director in the National Economic Accounts Division. She has over 14 years experience working at Statistics Canada and is currently responsible for the Income and Expenditure Accounts, Labour Productivity Accounts, Capital Stock program as well as the Distributions of Household Economic Accounts. She has contributed to several international advisory committees in the areas of macroeconomic accounts, digital economy and economic well-being. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Carleton University.
Assistant Director in the National Economic Accounts Division, Statistics Canada
Matthew Hoffarth
Matthew Hoffarth is Assistant Director in the National Economic Accounts Division. He has been an economist within the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts for over 20 years where he has had the privilege to work on many aspects of the sequence of accounts from the supply-use tables to the national balance sheet. This has given him a head-to-toe perspective on measuring and understanding the Canadian economy. Currently, he oversees capital and property incomes and inventories as part of the Income and Expenditure Accounts, numerous Thematic Accounts based on the macroeconomic framework covering domains such as tourism and critical minerals, and the Financial and Wealth Accounts, which measure the wealth of all sectors of the economy and present key indicators of financial vulnerabilities. He has a Masters degree from Carleton University where he focused on behavioral economics and decision making.
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