Editing Homemaking (section)

==Household production==
"Household production" is an economic category for activities including homemaking. It is defined as "the production of the goods and services by the members of a household, for their own consumption, using their own capital and their own [[unpaid work|unpaid labor]]. Goods and services produced by households for their own use include accommodation, meals, clean clothes, and child care. The process of household production involves the transformation of purchased intermediate commodities into final consumption commodities. Households use their own capital and their own labor."<ref>{{cite web|author=Ironmonger, D. |url=http://ideas.repec.org/p/mlb/wpaper/759.html |title=Household Production and the Household Economy |publisher=Ideas.repec.org |date=2000-02-02 |access-date=2015-07-02}}</ref>

There are efforts to construct estimates of the value of household production in a way analogous to [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]], though the category is not usually included in GDP.<ref>U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. [https://www.bea.gov/help/faq/1297 Why isn't household production included in GDP?], bea.gov, April 2018</ref> Goods and services created by households are generally consumed within the same country, and hence contribute in a "Domestic Consumption" category in [[national accounts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english/domestic-consumption|title=Domestic Consumption|publisher=Dictionary.cambridge.org|access-date=2015-07-02}}</ref>