Definition: Account

Category: SNA 1993

Tool which records, for a given aspect of economic life, (a) the uses and resources or (b) the changes in assets and the changes in liabilities and/or (c) the stock of assets and liabilities existing at a certain time. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA_1993_EN.pdf United Nations Statistics Division, "Guide to Producing Statistics on Time-Use: Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work", ST/ESA/STAT/SER.F/93, New York, 2005