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Social transfers in kind (national accounts)
Definition
Social transfers in kind correspond to individual goods and services supplied to households, whether the said goods and services were purchased on the market by general government or by NPISH, or whether they were produced by them (non-market production).
They therefore include both :
- social benefits in kind which fall into the category of social protection, i.e. goods and services supplied directly by general government (housing benefit for example) and those that beneficiary households buy themselves and then have reimbursed (medication, healthcare);
- and transfers of individual non-market goods and services, particularly education and health.
