Non-profit institutions serving households (S.15)

2.87 Definition:

The sector non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) (S.15) consists of non-profit institutions which are separate legal entities, which serve households and which are private other non-market producers (see paragraph 3.32.). Their principal resources, apart from those derived from occasional sales, are derived from voluntary contributions in cash or in kind from households in their capacity as consumers, from payments made by general governments and from property income.

2.88 Where these institutions are not very important, they are not included in this sector, their transactions being mixed up with those of households (S.14).

The NPISHs sector includes the following main kinds of NPISHs that provide non-market goods and services to households:

1. trade unions, professional or learned societies, consumers' associations, political parties, churches or religious societies (including those financed but not controlled by governments), and social, cultural, recreational and sports clubs;
2. charities, relief and aid organisations financed by voluntary transfers in cash or in kind from other institutional units.