Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001

Examples of final consumption products in housing services include hotel
and other accommodation, laundry services for home textiles and cut flowers.
However it is only rarely that staying at a hotel is a substitute for living at
home or a second home. In the principal function of housing, the sum total of
final consumption products averaged less than 300 euros in all types of
households. It is noteworthy that hotel nights included in package holidays are
not taken into account in these calculations.
Meals and snacks
In providing meals and snacks, the value of production ranged from over
14,200 euros in families with schoolchildren to less than 3,600 euros in
single-person households under 45 (Figure 19). As in other principal functions,
labour accounted for the bulk (over 60%) of the value of production in meals
and snacks. The share of labour was greatest and the share of intermediate
consumption goods and services smallest in single-person households and
couples over 65 (less than 20%). The share of labour was smallest among
young people living alone and couples (45%). Travel and services and
intermediate goods and services accounted for almost equally large proportions
in this principal function, standing at 18 per cent for older couples and people
living alone and for 22 per cent in most other types of households.
Figure 19 also shows the value of purchased final consumption products:
this allows us to compare the value of ready-to-eat snacks and meals with
those produced by the household.
In families with children and households under age 45, the value of
purchased final consumption products was greater than the value of
intermediate goods and services, whereas in other types of households the
opposite was true. For young people living alone, the value of final
consumption products was one-half of the total provision of meals and snacks
and for families with children around 30 per cent. This is probably indicative
Figure 19. Non-SNA production of meals and snacks and purchased final consumption products
by type of household
€/ /household /year
16,000
Travel and services
14,000
Gross value added
12,000 Intermediate
consumption
10,000 Purchases for
final consumption
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
Under 45 45–64 65+ Under 45 45–64 65+ Single Youngest Youngest Others
yrs yrs yrs yrs yrs yrs parents 0–6 7–17
Persons living alone Couples
Families with children
54 Statistics Finland National Consumer Research Centre