Definition: Households

Category: European System of Accounts (ESA)

Individuals or groups of individuals as consumers and as entrepreneurs producing market goods and non-financial  and financial services (market  producers) provided that the production of goods and services is not by separate entities treated as quasi corporations. It also includes individuals or groups of individuals as producers of goods and non-financial services for exclusively own final use. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-02-13-269&mode=view European Union, Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, Official Journal of the European Union No L 174, 26.06.2013, p. 1 - 727