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PRIORITYMEASURE64
“Considermeasuring the care economy using specializedaccounts and the creation of satellite accounts on unpaidwork, and the incorporation
of such accounts in the system of national accounts.”
Possible lines of action
1. Amend the legal and programmatic frameworks to recognize the productive value of unpaid work; 2. Conduct specialized time use
surveys to obtain up-to-date, gender-disaggregated information on unpaidwork in general, and on care-giving in particular; 3. Develop a
proposal to create a satellite account on unpaidwork in the system of national accounts.
Targets
1. Ongoing national time use surveys; 2. Inclusion of a satellite account on unpaid work in the system of national accounts, so as to
measure the care economy, including the contribution toGDP of unpaid carework.
Tentative indicators
1. Total timeworked: number ofworking hours paid and unpaid, by sex; 2. Percentage ofGDP corresponding tounpaidwork.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
Santo Domingo Consensus, agreement 54:
Recognize the value of unpaid domestic work and adopt the necessary measures, including
legislative measures, and public policies that recognize the social and economic value of domestic work
;
agreement 55:
Define and
establish instruments for the periodicmeasurement of the unpaidwork done bywomen and ensure that public budgets allocate the funds
required by the machineries responsible for compiling and systematizing the information for conducting national time-use surveys in
order to facilitate the design of appropriate and fair public policies
; agreement 56:
Urge States to establish satellite accounts for unpaid
domesticwork in the countries of the region
.
Brasilia Consensus, agreement 1.a:
[A]dopt all the social and economic policy measures required to advance towards the attribution of
social value to the unpaid domestic and care work performed by women and recognition of its economic value
; and agreement
1.d: [E]
ncourage the establishment, innational accounts, of a satellite account for unpaid domestic and carework performed bywomen.
Comments
Themeasurement of the care economy is an essential input for policies andprogrammes relating to care (PM 53).
Countries in various regions of the world, including several in Latin America and the Caribbean, are already conducting a time-use
survey. However, the coverage, quality and periodicity of the information vary greatly, making comparative analysis difficult. As well,
differingmethodologies have been developed to assign economic value tounpaidwork.
