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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Figure 23. Volunteer work by type of household<br />
€/ /household /year<br />
4,000<br />
3,500<br />
3,000<br />
2,500<br />
2,000<br />
1,500<br />
1,000<br />
500<br />
Travel <strong>and</strong> services<br />
Gross value added<br />
0<br />
Under 45 45–64 65+ Under 45 45–64 65+ S<strong>in</strong>gle Youngest Youngest Others<br />
yrs yrs yrs yrs yrs yrs parents 0–6 7–17<br />
Persons liv<strong>in</strong>g alone Couples<br />
Families with children<br />
The highest volunteer production figures were recorded for couples aged<br />
45–64 (over 3,500 euros, Figure 23). One explanation may be that these<br />
couples give <strong>in</strong>formal help to their elderly parents who live <strong>in</strong> separate<br />
households. The volunteer work was also higher than average <strong>in</strong> families with<br />
schoolchildren, where the bulk of this production consists of volunteer work<br />
related to children’s leisure activities <strong>and</strong> hobbies.<br />
6.2 <strong>Household</strong> production by types ofhousehold<br />
at national level<br />
A household analysis at the national level yields a rather different picture than<br />
the exam<strong>in</strong>ation of <strong>in</strong>dividual households. This is because the number of<br />
different types of households <strong>in</strong> our country varies. In Figure 24, the value of<br />
production by s<strong>in</strong>gle-parent households, for example, is as low as it is because<br />
there are so few households <strong>in</strong> this category (80,110). By contrast there is a<br />
very large number of households with couples aged 45–64 (almost 311,000),<br />
so their behaviour has a major impact on the national figures for household<br />
production. The number of s<strong>in</strong>gle-person households under 45 is higher still<br />
(317,000), but they account for a comparatively small proportion of<br />
household production ow<strong>in</strong>g to their small amount of unpaid work.<br />
Two-parent families with children, which number around half a million,<br />
account for one-third of the country’s total household production. <strong>Production</strong><br />
accounts for different types of households at the national level are shown <strong>in</strong><br />
Appendix 7. The Table also shows the average gross value added <strong>and</strong> the value<br />
of output per <strong>in</strong>dividual household (euros per household). (These rows are<br />
placed immediately below the value of output).<br />
SNA production consists primarily of hous<strong>in</strong>g services produced by<br />
owner-occupiers. The proportions of SNA production <strong>in</strong> different types of<br />
58 Statistics F<strong>in</strong>l<strong>and</strong> National Consumer Research Centre