Statistics Explained

Glossary:Institutional sector

Institutional sectors group institutional units which have a similar type of economic behaviour. ESA 2010 defines the following main sectors:

  • S.11: Non-financial corporations
  • S.12: Financial corporations
  • S.13: General government
  • S.14: Households
  • S.15: Non-profit institutions serving households
  • S.2: Rest of the world ("consists of non-resident units insofar as they are engaged in transactions with resident institutional units, or have other economic links with resident units")

Source

ESA 2010, from para. 2.31.

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