How well total private spending can be incorporated and how easily sources of financing (use of own capital, households, transfers from the public sector and others) can be differentiated depends on the countries' progress in implementing the system of national accounts and on the capacity of statistical systems to identify sources by reconciling existing information. Household spending in connection with unpaid work is measured using information collected by time-use surveys, which are increasingly being conducted in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. There are, however, country-level initiatives under way in Chile, Mexico and Peru. This shows that information currently published underestimates the country's social spending by about 50%, without taking into account spending undertaken by households to bridge the gaps not covered by social security.