Examples of uses of results

Kristiina Aalto

IATUR Workshop, Turku, July 29, 2014

The uses of SNA

• To increase our understanding of the economic

interaction between markets and households

• To compare the value and amount of home produced

services to similar market produced services or

services produced by public services

• To comparing e.g. the provision of care services at

the national level by service producer (government,

market provision, household provision)

• To predict the future

Non-SNA -household production (value

added gross) in relation to GDP, %

25

27

29

31

33

35

37

39

41

43

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Non-SNA -household production (value added gross) in relation to GDP, %

Domestic housekeepers' gross wage Domestic housekeepers' net wage

HHSA estimates* in 5 countries: effects

on enlarging GDP and consumption

Country GDP Consumption

UK 2000 63% 95%

Finland 2009 41% 53%

Basque Country 2003 33% 56%

France 2010 36% - 68% 63%

USA 2004 27% 26%

Source: HHSA for France in 2010 (Poissonier & Roy 2013), own modification

*Note: The figures are not totally comparable

In case we have Information of

various households or output

types

• Comparing various household types reveals: whether

households behave differently

• Comparing various output types shows which of them

dominates

The production by output types

Household production by household type, €/y

The structure of household production by

household type (Gross value added ), 2009

Housing production (non-SNA) by

household type, €/year

child 0-6 child 7-17

Household production of meals and snacks,

€/year

child 0-6 child 7-17

Market consumption of meals and snacks,

€/year

child 0-6 child 7-17

Market consumption & household production

of meals and snacks, €/year

Thank you!

email: kristiina.aalto@ncrc.fi

www.ncrc.fi