Local KAUs and their outputs: distinction between market, for own final use and other non-market

3.38 . After having applied the distinction market, for own final use and other non-market to institutional units as producers, the distinction can be applied to local KAU and their outputs. This relation is shown in Table 3.2.

Table 3.2 Institutional units, local KAUs and output and the distinction between market, for own final use and other non-market

 


Institutional unit


Principal local


Secondary local KAU(s)


Principal output of principal local KAU
Secondary output of principal local KAU
Principal output of secondary local KAU
Secondary output of secondary local KAU

Market producer




Market producer








Market output




Market output









Output for own final use
Market producer
Market output
Market output

Output for own final use
Producer for own final use
Output for own final use
Market output


Producer for own final use




Producer for own final use








Output for own final use




Market output










Other non-
market
producer




Other non-market producer








Other non-market output




Market output
Output for own final use









Other non-market output
Market producer
Market output
Market output
Output for own final use
Other non-market producer
Other non-market output
Market output
Output for own final use












Other non-market output

3.39 . For institutional units qualifying as market producers, the principal local KAU is of course also a market producer. The secondary local KAU can be a market producer, but also a producer for own final use. However, the secondary local KAU can by convention not be an other non-market producer. This implies that the (secondary) local KAUs in the sectors non-financial corporations and financial corporations are all market producers or producers for own final use.

3.40 . For institutional units that are other non-market producers, the principal local KAU will also be an other non-market producer. The secondary local KAUs can be market producers or other non-market producers. This implies that the sectors general government and NPISH can contain some (secondary) local KAUs that are market producers (although all the institutional units in these sectors are other non-market producers). In order to determine whether the secondary local KAUs are market or other non-market producers the 50% criterion should be applied.

3.41 . After having applied the distinction market, for own final use and other non-market to institutional units and their local KAUs, the distinction can be applied to the outputs of local KAUs. This relation is shown in Table 3.3.

Table 3.3 The distinction market, for own final use and other non-market for local KAUs and
their output

 


Market producers
Producers for own final use Other non-market producers Total

Market output




X




x




x




Total market output


Output for own
final use




x




X




x




Total output for own final use


Other non-market output




0




0




X




Total other non-market output


Total




Total output by market producers




Total output by producers for own final use




Total output by other non-market producers




Total output


X = large output; x = small output; 0 = no output (by convention)

3.42 . By convention, local KAUs as market producers and as producers for own final use can not supply other non-market output. Their output can thus only be recorded as market output or output for own final use and valued correspondingly (see paragraphs 3.46. - 3.52.).

3.43 . Local KAUs as other non-market producers can supply as secondary output market outputs and output for own final use. The output for own final use consists of own-account capital formation. The occurrence of market output should in principle be determined by applying the 50% criterion to individual products: market output is output that is sold at least 50% of its production costs. This might be the case for instance when government hospitals charge economically significant prices for some of their services. Other examples are sales of reproductions by government museums and sales of weather forecasts by meteorological institutes.

3.44 . In statistical practice, it may be difficult to make a clear distinction between the different products of local KAUs of government institutions and NPISHs. Even more, this is true for the production costs in relation to the different products. In that case, a simple solution is to treat all revenues of other non-market producers from their secondary activity(activities) as the revenues for one type of market output. This applies for example to a museum's revenues from the sale of posters and cards .

3.45 . Other non-market producers may also have revenues from the sale of their other non-market output at not economically significant prices, e.g. the museum's revenues from tickets for entrance. These revenues pertain to other non-market output. However, if both types of revenues (revenues from tickets and those from the sale of posters and cards) are difficult to distinguish, they can all be treated as either revenues for market output or revenues from other non-market output. The choice between these two alternative registrations should depend on the assumed relative importance of both types of revenues (from tickets versus those from the sale of posters and cards).