Social transfers in kind concordance and mapping

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Social transfers in kind (STiK) are related to social security and social assistance benefits provided in kind by governments and non-profit institutions serving household (NPISH) units to households. These transactions include the non-market production of services to households, as well as the purchase of goods and services for transfer to households, either at no charge or at prices that are not economically significant. Examples of STiK-related transactions include provincial government expenditures on education and health care, the provision by NPISH of recreational and religious services, and the provision by food banks of meals to needy households.

Distributions of STiK are available for education, health and a residual category, other. Their distributions are available for both the income and the consumption and their values are equivalent as the STiK represent the amount of income, implicitly transferred to households, required to implicitly “buy” those STiK if households actually paid for them directly.

In the MEA, the inclusion of STiK transactions have no impact on household net saving as these transactions are added to both household disposable income, which equals adjusted household disposable income, and to household final consumption expenditure, which equals household actual final consumption.

The DHEA mapping for STiK is shown in the table below.