Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001

When looking at income quintiles, the results showed that in virtually all
principal functions, the share of both output, intermediate consumption goods
and services, labour as well as the acquisition of final consumption products
increases steadily from lower to higher income quintiles. This pattern of steady
growth is most clearly disrupted in the output of care and volunteer work
(Figure 17). The deviations are largely explained by the types of households
belonging to the different quintiles. For example, the large amount of care in
the fourth income quintile is mainly due to it having the highest proportion of
families with small children (21%). It was therefore not considered necessary
to examine households in greater detail on the basis of income quintiles;
instead we turn our attention to the differences between different types of
households.
The discussion below proceeds to examine each principal function. In
figures 18–23 travel and services are shown as a separate part of the output in
each principal function. It consists of the value of labour, capital consumption
and intermediate consumption. The output value of travel and services as a
proportion of the value of total household production ranged from 16 per cent
in single-person households to 29 per cent for young couples. In most other
household types transportation accounted for between 20 and 22 per cent of
total output.
Figure 17. Gross value added of non-SNA household production by principal function and
income quintile
€/ /household /year
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Housing Meals Clothing Care Pets Volunteer work
52 Statistics Finland National Consumer Research Centre