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:
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 household type. Household types include women and men who are: single without children; lone parents / single cohabiting with children; in a couple without children; in a couple cohabitating with children; other.
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 |