Distribution of housework chores within the household before and during the pandemic (%), by type of household task and age of respondent eige_covid_hw__covid_hhwork_distrib_age

Time format:
Years
Unit:
Percentage (comparable)
Description:

This indicator shows the distribution of household chores within a household, for women and men with cohabiting partners before and during the pandemic, disaggregated by household task.

It is based on the question:“Who in your household generally does the following tasks (Shopping for groceries; Housework chores; Financial and administrative manners; and Management and planning tasks)?” for two time periods(“nowadays” and “before the pandemic started in February/March 2020”).

Valid response were grouped into the four categories:

  • Completely or mostly my partner
  • About equal or both together
  • Completely or mostly me
  • Mainly another person

More information on the methodological aspects of EIGE’s survey ‘Gender Equality and Socio-Economic Consequences of Covid-19 crisis’ can be obtained in the technical report.

This indicator is disaggregated by age of respondent. This is grouped into three age groups: 20-34; 35-49; and 50-64.

Keywords:
covid, covid-19, domestic work, housework, pandemic, work

No data found.

Available flags:

b break in time series c confidential
d definition differs, see metadata e estimated
f forecast i see metadata
m imputed n not significant
p provisional r revised
s Eurostat estimate u low reliability
x dropped due to insufficient sample size y unreliable due to small sample size
z not applicable