Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001

Travel and services related to household production and the planning and
organisation of activities were allocated to different principal functions as
illustrated in Table 5. This was based on data from the Time Use Survey where
travel related to different functions and time spent in buying perishables and
other goods are reported separately.
Table 5.
Breakdown of time spent in shopping and services, travel related to unpaid work,
planning and organisation by principal functions, %
Housing and
maintenance
Meals
and
snacks
Clothing
and
clothing
care
Care,
children
and
adults
Volunteer
work
Total
%
Mean
(range), min/
household/
day
Shopping and services
(not travel) 36 40 12 12 – 100 42
(21–77)
Travel related to unpaid
work and transportation 2931 13 12 15 100 40
(16–75)
Household management 25 25 25 25 – 100 4
(2–9)
Time spent in shopping and services was not separately allocated to
volunteer work because it was already classified as part of that function in time
use data; the same applies to the planning and organisation of volunteer work.
By contrast travel time related to volunteer work was classified separately.
Providing housing
Housing is the most diverse of the principal functions considered here. In
principle every household is thought to have a dwelling-place, a sanctuary
where the household members can live and relax. In practice, housing consists
of a wide range of different activities that are carried out in a space called a
dwelling. Part of the production of housing services is included in the core
national accounts; “housing services produced by owner-occupiers” and
“own-account house construction”. Housing services comprise the dwelling in
the condition in which it is normally rented, i.e. unfurnished but including
fitted fixtures. Non-SNA production includes all other equipment related to
housing, its acquisition and own-account maintenance, in other words
furnishings, maintenance, cleaning and minor repairs. Gardening and yard
maintenance are also included in housing. Housing production is understood in
the Satellite Account in a broad sense as including the production of comfort
and everything that facilitates all the various activities that take place in
homes. Furniture, ordinary art objects, textiles and televisions etc. are
therefore included in housing as capital goods (Appendix 3). Only goods
related to hobbies are excluded.
26 Statistics Finland National Consumer Research Centre