the objective of the guide is to provide guidance to national statistical offices on selecting and applying methods for valuing ownuse production work of services and on compiling household satellite accounts the remaining element of unpaid household service work the production of services for other households or more simply volunteering is considered to entail a number of different and complex methodological challenges considered too great to be dealt with in this guidance implementation of the guide s recommendations would improve international comparability of statistics on unpaid household service work