Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001
Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001
Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001
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Volunteer work<br />
As the name implies, volunteer work consists primarily of labour. No<br />
<strong>in</strong>termediate consumption is allocated to this pr<strong>in</strong>cipal function because<br />
ord<strong>in</strong>arily the recipient will cover the immediate costs <strong>in</strong>curred from volunteer<br />
work. Travel <strong>and</strong> transportation costs, on the other h<strong>and</strong>, have been allocated<br />
to volunteer work as reported <strong>in</strong> the Time Use Survey<br />
Figure 10. Volunteer work, value <strong>and</strong> structure<br />
Travel, transportation<br />
<strong>and</strong> services<br />
27%<br />
Volunteer work,<br />
5.35 billion euros<br />
Labour<br />
73%<br />
Travel <strong>and</strong> services related to unpaid work<br />
It is <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g, f<strong>in</strong>ally, to look at shopp<strong>in</strong>g, services <strong>and</strong> travel that are related<br />
to housework. They account for a considerable proportion of production <strong>in</strong> all<br />
pr<strong>in</strong>cipal functions. This highlights the dependence of household production<br />
on market production as well as the amount of time <strong>and</strong> money that have to be<br />
<strong>in</strong>vested <strong>in</strong> this <strong>in</strong>teraction. Shopp<strong>in</strong>g, services <strong>and</strong> travel related to unpaid<br />
work account for one-fifth of total non-SNA household production. In Figure<br />
11, shopp<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> services are presented separately from related travel, even<br />
though the notion of “shopp<strong>in</strong>g” is usually understood as compris<strong>in</strong>g travel to<br />
the shops as well. Travel time to the shops accounts for over one-half of all<br />
travel, while volunteer work, the transportation of children <strong>and</strong> adults <strong>and</strong> the<br />
vehicle ma<strong>in</strong>tenance account for the other half.<br />
The value of travel <strong>and</strong> transportation related to unpaid work is 8.5 billion<br />
euros, of which labour accounts for almost 80 per cent. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the Time<br />
Use Survey housework related travel accounts for about one-third of total<br />
travel time. One-third of the costs from runn<strong>in</strong>g a car <strong>and</strong> other vehicles (fuel,<br />
ma<strong>in</strong>tenance <strong>and</strong> service costs), the consumption of fixed capital <strong>and</strong> vehicle<br />
tax are also allocated to unpaid work travel.<br />
44 Statistics F<strong>in</strong>l<strong>and</strong> National Consumer Research Centre