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Session 6 c tovar s ti_k for mexico
- 1. TREATMENT OF SOCIAL TRANSFERS IN KIND IN THE HOUSEHOLD SECTOR OF MEXICO BY MARTHA TOVAR Discussant comments IARIW 33rd General Conference Rotterdam, the Netherlands, August 24-30, 2014 Jennifer Ribarsky, OECD
- 2. Overview • Mexico participated in the OECD-Eurostat Expert Group on Disparities in National Accounts (EG DNA) • Compare micro and macro sources • Allocate National Accounts (macro) totals to quintiles 2
- 3. Importance of STiK for Mexico • On average STiK as a share of GDP is 5.4% from 2003-2012 – Education services share is 3.4% – Healthcare services share is 2% 3
- 4. Steps in allocating STiK A. Allocate households to quintiles – Using cash or near cash disposable income – Ranked according to Equivalized Disposable Income (EDI) B. Identify relevant variables from household survey C. Matching household survey information with official administrative data on education and health D. Apply distributional breakdown to national accounts aggregates using a per capita costs for the type of service provided 4
- 5. Allocation of Education STiK • Information on actual participation in different types of education. • Distinction between participation in publicly and privately funded education institutions • Information available from household survey then matched to administrative source – Results are consistent 5
- 6. Public and private enrollment 6
- 7. Distribution by quintile STiK Education 7
- 8. Education STiK by educational level 8
- 9. Allocation of healthcare STiK • Number of people receiving health care services from public institutions, by level of attention • Average number of times the people go to receive healthcare services • Insurance approach? • Number of times person attends that particular public healthcare institution times the average cost from that healthcare institution? 9
- 10. Implications • Average cost, according to education level or type of healthcare for any person in any quintile is the same. • Therefore, the distinction is the use of the service (which is implicit in the household survey data) 10
- 11. Distribution by quintile Healthcare STiK 11
- 12. Distribution by quintile, STiK education & healthcare 12
- 13. Questions / Comments • What about in-kind transfers other than healthcare and education in Mexico? • Interesting to explore the allocation of healthcare. – Is there a quality difference between the healthcare provided by different public institutions? – Healthcare access for the lowest quintiles by public institutions outside the social security is valued less 13
Editor's Notes
- Mexico is rather unique in that the share of spending on education services is higher than the share of spending on healthcare services.
- If no distinction is available, enrolment in private schools may lead to an underestimation of the poverty impact of public education services if these students are mainly from better-off families and if public subsidies of private schools are lower than the costs of public schools (i.e., too much allocation of STiK to a higher quintile level.)
- Each student that participates in a publicly funded education institution is assigned a public education transfer that equals the cost of producing these services in the corresponding level of education, converted to a per student basis based on the number of students enrolled in each level.
- Insurance approach providing estimate of average health public spending by age (gender) A group specific average… allocating spending from a particular institution by number of times of use?
- Q3 is receiving more benefits in kind for healthcare than the others. Services provided by institutions belonging to the social security can be more expensive than the services provided by institutions outside this scheme.