Distributional Wealth Accounts
Distributional Wealth Accounts (DWA) are statistics that provide an assessment of the distribution of household wealth and which break down such wealth held by different groups of people, such as the poorest or richest parts of the population. DWA links two different datasets: (a) Quarterly Sector Accounts (QSA) and (b) data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). QSA statistics include financial transactions and positions and the non-financial transactions for the main institutional sectors including the household sector, while the HFCS provides information on the distribution of wealth among households. The methods and results have been developed and compiled by the ESCB's Expert Group on Distributional Financial Accounts (EG DFA).