Domestic product by gender in the framework of 2008 SNA

This paper attempts (i) to examine the coverage i.e. production boundary in the 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA), from the point of view of capturing the activities of women, in the estimation of domestic product by gender, (ii) to measure the value of unpaid work of women as housewives’ services in the concept of Extended Net Domestic Productas suggested by Mukherjee (1985a,b) and also in the satellite accounts provided in the 2008 SNA framework, and (iii) to estimate the share of women in the extended NDP. Concepts, data availability and gaps therein for estimating the domestic product by gender have also been discussed inter-alia.