Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001

Non-SNA food
The output of non-SNA meals production amounts to 23 billion, which is
around 100 times more than SNA food. It includes provision of meals and
snacks in households.
Consumption of fixed capital accounts for a much smaller proportion of
non-SNA food than SNA food, no more than a couple of per cent. Although
households use a wide range of household appliances as well as cookware and
serving dishes, these are relatively durable and consumption is therefore spread
out across several years.
The preparation of meals requires a large amount of intermediate
consumption goods. One-quarter of household electricity consumption and
one-fifth of water consumption are allocated to the preparation of meals and
snacks (Appendix 8). For purchased foods it has been necessary to make a
distinction between foods used as ingredients in meal preparation, on the one
hand, and foods that are ready to eat, i.e. final consumption goods, on the
other. The boundary line is not always watertight. In some households some
products may be eaten as snacks without any processing, in others they are
used as ingredients in the preparation of meals. In the Satellite Account more
than one-half of foods were defined as final consumption goods, which means
that they can either be consumed as such as snacks, or they constitute a meal
in their own right. However there are some foods that are both consumed as
such and used as ingredients in production (e.g. milk, fruit). In the absence of
detailed information, these foods are classified so that one food in the group
has been chosen to represent one or the other category. For example, non-fat
milk has been chosen to represent milk as a final consumption good, while
other types of milk are classified as intermediate consumption goods. As for
fruit, apples have been chosen to represent all the various fruits that are used
in cooking or baking as intermediate consumption goods, and other fruits
represent final consumption goods. (See the list of foods and their allocation to
intermediate and final consumption in Appendix 3).
Figure 5.
Value of meals and beverages by mode of production
Eating out,
ready-to-eat
foods
17%
Meals, snacks and drinks,
total 32.2 billion euros
Alcoholic beverages
11%
Own production
57%
Shopping and
related travel
15%
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