Definition: Use of income accounts

Category: SNA

The purpose of the use of income accounts is to show how households, government units and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) allocate their disposable income between final consumption and saving.

This definition is used both in SNA 1993 (§ 9.1) and in SNA 2008 (§ 9.1). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA2008.pdf United Nations, "System of National Accounts (SNA) 1993", United Nations, New York, 1993
Source:
European Commission (Eurostat), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations (Statistics Division), World Bank, "System of National Accounts 2008", United Nations, New York, 2009
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