Sectorshouseholds

Sectorshouseholds is a term used in certain statistical databases and macroeconomic data models to label the household sector within a broader sectors taxonomy. In national accounts, the household sector comprises households and, in many classifications, nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISH). The term sectorshouseholds acts as a data-structuring label to ensure that household-related flows can be distinguished from other sectors such as government, business, and financial institutions.

Data sets that use sectorshouseholds typically record income, consumption, saving, wealth, and transfer payments for households, sometimes alongside demographic breakdowns or geographic units. As a dimension in a data warehouse or time-series database, sectorshouseholds enables analysts to aggregate or compare household-level activity across time, regions, or subgroups.

The precise definition of sectorshouseholds can vary by organization. Some systems treat it as equivalent to the household sector defined in the SNA (which includes NPISH), while others may exclude NPISH or treat these as separate sectors. Users should consult the relevant data dictionary for the dataset being used to understand how sectorshouseholds is applied.

Related topics include national accounts, the household sector, nonprofit institutions serving households, and SNA standards for economic accounting.