Producer price indices volume 2002, Supplement 2
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2.13.1 What is being consumed?
Housing services in the national accounts In the case of rented dwellings, it seems straightforward that a tenant is paying for, and consuming, housing services produced by the owner of the house. The owner is treated as being the proprietor of an enterprise that uses the house as a capital asset to produce housing services. When the owner of a dwelling occupies their own house, the housing services are treated as being produced and consumed by the household, and a value is imputed for this output despite the fact that no monetary transaction has occurred. The 1993 SNA recommends valuing non-monetary transactions at market prices. In the absence of reliable market prices, the SNA recommends a second-best solution whereby the value of the output of a good or service for own use is estimated using the sum of its costs of production. In the case of owner-occupied housing services, the relevant market prices are the estimated rents that would be charged for similar rented accommodation. In the absence of reliable data on rents, it is extremely difficult to estimate a value for rent that would cover all costs of owner-occupied housing services based on the sum of the costs of production. However, the SNA considers that the existence of a well-organised rented housing market in most countries means that this problem is rarely encountered by national accountants. In the 1993 SNA the use of housing is treated as a genuine process of production which will normally require some inputs such as routine repairs and maintenance. Routine repairs and maintenance are those needed to maintain the dwelling in working condition, and not those which increase its life, thereby adding to the stock of fixed assets. Routine repairs and maintenance are generally treated as intermediate consumption 37 whereas major renovations are treated as gross fixed capital formation. The use of the house is treated as consumption of fixed capital (depreciation) even though this is usually very difficult to estimate. 37 However, routine repairs carried out by the tenant or owner is treated as final consumption expenditure. System of National Accounts 1993 – Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UN, World Bank (1993), Paragraph 9.59, page 211. |
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