•It does not matter whether the goods and services consumed are purchased by a person with his personal income or he receives them without specific expenditure on his part.
•Certain services, facilities and civic amenities, such as schools, hospitals, roads, parks, police protection and street lights, are provided free by the governmentor at a nominal cost to its people.
•The availability of these facilities and services represents ‘real income’ and, therefore, constitutes part of the level of living.