Income from households ’ non - SNA production : A review

The production of goods and services by households can be split into production intended to be sold or exchanged (market production) and that to be consumed by the household itself or given free of charge to another party (non-market production). The former is within the ambit of the System of National Accounts (SNA)3 economic production boundary (para. 6.18 (a)) and called ‘SNA market production’. The latter can be further divided into the production of goods, the production of paid domestic services and owner-occupied housing services and the production of other services. The first two also are almost wholly4 included in the SNA economic production boundary (paras. 6.17, 6.18 (b)) and referred to as ‘SNA non-market production’. The third type of household production consists of formal and informal unpaid volunteer services and those other domestic and personal services that are consumed within the household, both of which are explicitly excluded from the SNA economic production boundary (paras. 6.17, 6.19).