Economic value of domestic work

Abstract

The article analyses the economic value of domestic work, followingthe logic of the statistical examination: describing the phenomena andtheir appropriate measures, defining the terminology and fitting it intothe existing system of statistical concepts. The author draws attentionto important sources of data and indicates the methods of their mea-surement.Then the data sources are looked for and the methods devel-oped. The results are illustrated with the Household Satellite Accountof Hungary with some European perspectives.