Adding unpaid work to the National Transfer Accounts for Slovenia

Recently the method called National Transfer Accounts (NTA) has been developed to measure economic flows across age groups. Age groups in which individuals produce more than they consume (prime age adults) are financing age groups whose consumption excesses their production (young and elderly). The NTA are synchronized with the System of National Accounts (SNA) and therefore they ignore production in form of unpaid work like cooking, cleaning, childcare etc. In this paper we add the unpaid work to the conventional NTA results. Based on time use data from 2000/2001 we discover that people in Slovenia spent on unpaid work 3 hours and 45 minutes per day, exceeding even the amount of time they spend on paid work (about 3 hours per day), which confirms the necessity of including unpaid work into the NTA analysis. There are large net transfers of unpaid work flowing from adults to the children, especially to the youngest ones (exceeding even the value of private transfers in form of clothing, housing, financing kindergartens etc.), and in smaller extent also to the elderly in the highest age groups.