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.

EU27_2020
BE
BG
CZ
DK
DE
EE
IE
EL
ES
FR
HR
IT
CY
LV
LT
LU
HU
MT
NL
AT
PL
PT
RO
SI
SK
FI
SE
2021
EU27_2020
65.7
BE
63
BG
70
CZ
70.8
DK
56.7
DE
68.7
EE
50.3
IE
64.4
EL
59.2
ES
66.9
FR
59.8
HR
80.5
IT
70.5
CY
52.3
LV
66.5
LT
70.3
LU
67.4
HU
57.1
MT
81.4(y)
NL
60.1
AT
65.3
PL
66.3
PT
72.8
RO
59
SI
51.7
SK
75.2
FI
70.2
SE
53.8

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