In addition to calculating GDP, Stats Canada uses the national income accounts to calculate other things too:

Gross National Product Total income acquired by Canadians both within Canada

and elsewhere

Notice the Difference: GDP focuses on incomes made in Canada GNP focuses on the earnings of Canadians

8.3 Other Economic Measures

To calculate GNP:

GNP = GDP + NR (Net income inflow from assets abroad; e.g. stock dividend earned from financial investments by Canadians in the rest of the world) – NP (net payment outflow to foreign assets).

GNP = GDP + NR - NP

Gross National Product

PPP Adjustment – Used for comparing GDP: we build a basket of comparable goods and services and look at the prices of that

basket in different countries. Purchasing Power Parity is the exchange rate needed for say $100 to buy the same quantity of

products in each country.

Another type of income derived from national accounts is Disposable Income – household income, after payment of income taxes, which can be either consumed or saved.

Disposable Income

GNP is less than GDP, due to the importance of foreign financial investments in Canada (which remember, get subtracted from

GDP to get GNP)

Disposable income is less than both GDP and GNP