European National Transfer Accounts

European National Transfer Accounts (ENTA) V.2.0.0 provide age- and sex-specific data on income, public and private transfers, consumption and saving for 26 European countries (all EU member states except Malta). Age profiles cover the income years 2008–2023 (Croatia from 2009, Bulgaria to 2022); the national aggregates cover 1995–2024.

ENTA integrate age and sex into the European System of Accounts (ESA) by combining macroeconomic data from Eurostat with microdata from EU-SILC, the EU Labour Force Survey, the Household Budget Survey, the EUROMOD tax-benefit microsimulation model and further sources. The accounts follow the concepts of the global NTA project (www.ntaccounts.org) and are also published in its format, so that results can be compared with NTA for countries outside Europe.

The data include per capita means by single year of age (0 to 80, where 80 is 80 and older) for men, women and both sexes: primary income (employment and asset income); taxes and social contributions by economic function; government cash benefits (pensions, family, unemployment, other including health); funded pensions; private transfers between and within households; government consumption (education, health, other); private consumption (education, health, imputed rent of owner-occupied housing, other); several measures of disposable income; saving; employment rates and working hours; population; and equivalised household income. Monetary quantities are measured at basic prices and scaled to the ESA aggregates, so that population-weighted age-specific means add up to the national accounts totals.

Files. ENTA_esa and ENTA_nta (age profiles in the two formats), ENTA_aggregates (national totals by sector, million euro) and ENTA_units, each as CSV and Parquet. Values are stored in euro per capita at current prices; real, purchasing-power-adjusted, percentage and NTA/ENTA norm units are calculated from the stored value with the factors in ENTA_units, as described in the codebook. The data can also be explored at ntaeurope.eu/entadata.

Documentation. The codebook defines every indicator and unit. The manual documents the methodology, the quality of the data and their limitations; users comparing countries or years should read its Chapter 6. Replication code (Stata): https://github.com/bbinderhammer/enta.