Beliefs and attitudes toward the roles of women and men regarding unpaid childcare and housework, by household type

Beliefs and attitudes toward the roles of women and men regarding unpaid childcare and housework, by household type eige_care_attit__care_attit_hh

Time format:

Years

Unit:

Percentage (comparable)

Description:

This dataset shows respondents’ views about attitudes and roles of women and men regarding unpaid childcare and housework.

The numbers indicate what percentage (%) of all respondents have expressed each level of agreement (on a five-point scale, from ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree’) with each of the following statements:

A working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work.
Boys have the same obligations to help with household chores as girls.
If the child is ill, the father should also go on sick leave.
A family is stronger when fathers not only support the family financially, but also take care of children.
Mothers should make most of the decisions on how to bring up their children.
Household work should be shared by partners equally.

This indicator is disaggregated by household type. For the purposes of this indicator, five household types are distinguished:

Single
Single parent
Couple without children
Couple with children
Other

Keywords:

attitudes, child care, child care-related, childcare, childcare services, childcare-related, domestic work, housework, social activities, work

Select all	Code	Label
	2024	2024

Select all	Code	Label
	EU27_2020	European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)
	BE	Belgium
	BG	Bulgaria
	CZ	Czechia
	DK	Denmark
	DE	Germany
	EE	Estonia
	IE	Ireland
	EL	Greece
	ES	Spain
	FR	France
	HR	Croatia
	IT	Italy
	CY	Cyprus
	LV	Latvia
	LT	Lithuania
	LU	Luxembourg
	HU	Hungary
	MT	Malta
	NL	Netherlands
	AT	Austria
	PL	Poland
	PT	Portugal
	RO	Romania
	SI	Slovenia
	SK	Slovakia
	FI	Finland
	SE	Sweden

EU27_2020

		time
geo

2024

56.3

51.6

44.4

42.1

41.1

EU27_2020

40.4

40.1

39.8

39.7

38.8

38.7

37.5

35.8

35.2

34.8

34.1

33.2

32.4

32.2

30.3

26.2

23.4

22.4

20.5

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

Beliefs and attitudes toward the roles of women and men regarding unpaid childcare and housework, by household type eige_care_attit__care_attit_hh

Time

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