Country Reports
Unpaid labour not covered by the SNA is essentially reduced to unpaid care labour in the domestic sphere. According to ILO (2019), unpaid care labour is labour performed without remuneration and intended to provide services for the household’s own final use. Unpaid care labour also includes volunteer labour for households other than the volunteer’s family, and unpaid trainee labour.
Excluded from the scope of unpaid care labour are productive activities defined as the production of goods for the household’s own final use (for example, making goods for own use, collecting wood or water, subsistence farming) or as employment for profit (such as the activities of people who labour without wage or salary in a family business)…
In order to measure the size of the Kenya care sector, we used an analysis based on the disaggregation of the social accounting matrix (SAM) of Kenya the year 2021. SAM. A national SAM is an economy-wide data framework that captures the detailed economic structure of a country. A SAM is a square matrix in which each account is represented by a row and a column. Each cell reflects a payment from the column account to the row account, i.e., incomes appear along rows and expenditures along columns. Double-entry accounting requires that, for each account, total revenue (row total) equals total expenditure (column total). Table 1 shows an aggregate SAM, with verbal explanations in place of numbers…