Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001

6 Household production in different
types ofhouseholds
In Chapter 5 above, household production was examined at the national level.
The discussion below describes household production in different types of
households. In this analysis the figures can be presented in two different ways.
First, we can look at the amount of production in one individual household
and at how it breaks down between different principal functions in different
types of households. This is a micro-level analysis. Secondly, we can examine
different household types at the level of the national economy, in which case
the results will also depend on the overall number of that particular type of
household in the country. This approach allows us to compare the household
production of, say, pensioner households and working-age households at the
national level. The production and generation of income accounts for each
type of household are compiled in Appendix 7. Households are grouped by
their life-stage and the age of the reference person (Table 8). The number of
households in the population and in the research material is shown in Table 2.
Table 8.
Types of households and their average size
Type of household Classification by age etc. Average size
of household,
persons
Average
number of
persons over
age 10 in
household*
Single-person households under 45 yrs 1 1
45–64 yrs 1 1
65 yrs or over 1 1
Couples without children
whose reference person
under 45 yrs 2 2
45–64 yrs 2 2
65 yrs or over 2 2
Families with children, with one parent, youngest child 0–17 yrs 2.6 1.6
two parents, youngest child 0–6 yrs 4.1 2.3
two parents, youngest child 7–17 yrs 4.0 3.5
Other households
mainly households with more than
two persons aged 18 or over 2.92.8
* Household time use is the combined time use of household members aged 10 or over
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