<p>What you want is the <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Flow of Funds</a> (which measures transactions and levels of assets and liabilities), not the National Income and Product Accounts, which primarily measure output and (mostly, though not entirely, physical) capital stock. </p>

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many thanks, i suppose the size of householder debt, and corporate debt is measured simply by adding up their loans from banks , and bonds outstanding for the latter ?
Randor
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For consumers, it’s a combination of bank loans, mortgages and consumer credit (which don’t all come from banks, and “other” loans (mostly from government, especially student loans).
dismalscience
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For corporates, it’s a much longer list, including things you wouldn’t necessarily think of off the top of your head, like pension liabilities. You can see it in the levels table: https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/fof/DisplayTable.aspx?t=l.103
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<p>is there a way in NIPA accounts to see a measure of size/change in private debt stock , and how is it measured?
if not then how is it measured?</p>

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is there a way in NIPA accounts to see a measure of size/change in private debt stock?
Randor
# is there a way in NIPA accounts to see a measure of size/change in private debt stock?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-09)

is there a way in NIPA accounts to see a measure of size/change in private debt stock , and how is it measured?
if not then how is it measured?

**Tags:** macroeconomics, debt, saving


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-10. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

What you want is the [Flow of Funds](https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/) (which measures transactions and levels of assets and liabilities), not the National Income and Product Accounts, which primarily measure output and (mostly, though not entirely, physical) capital stock.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: many thanks, i suppose the size of householder debt, and corporate debt is measured simply by adding up their loans from banks , and bonds outstanding for the latter ?  
> **username_1**: For consumers, it’s a combination of bank loans, mortgages and consumer credit (which don’t all come from banks, and “other” loans (mostly from government, especially student loans).  
> **username_1**: For corporates, it’s a much longer list, including things you wouldn’t necessarily think of off the top of your head, like pension liabilities. You can see it in the levels table: https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/fof/DisplayTable.aspx?t=l.103  

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