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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1991

Year: 1991
Module: Gender
Variable: DOCHILD1

Question: If married or living as married and there are children under 16 in the household
I would like to ask about how you and your husband/wife/partner generally share some family jobs. Who looks after the child(ren) when they are sick: mainly the man, mainly the women or is the task shared equally?

Index to tables on this page

  1. % of men and women
  2. % of people of different ages
  3. % of people of different religions.

Overall Results %
Mainly man4
Mainly woman56
Shared equally39
Not answered2

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Mainly man 3 5
Mainly woman 48 61
Shared equally 48 32
Not answered 1 2

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Mainly man * 4 3 * 0 0
Mainly woman * 55 58 * * *
Shared equally * 40 38 * * 0
Not answered 0 0 1 * 0 0
* indicates that the number of people in this category is
too small to allow percentages to be calculated.

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Mainly man 2 4 *
Mainly woman 54 59 *
Shared equally 42 37 *
Not answered 2 1 0
* indicates that the number of people in this category is
too small to allow percentages to be calculated.

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