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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1991

Year: 1991
Module: Gender
Variable: DOCHORE1

Question: If married or living as married…
I would like to ask about how you and your husband/wife/partner generally share some family jobs. Who does the household shopping: 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 man6
Mainly woman59
Shared equally34
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Mainly man 6 7
Mainly woman 54 64
Shared equally 40 29
Not answered 1 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Mainly man * 5 7 3 4 15
Mainly woman * 50 65 71 59 53
Shared equally * 44 28 27 36 30
Not answered * 0 0 0 1 2
* 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 6 6 *
Mainly woman 59 61 *
Shared equally 34 32 *
Not answered 1 0 0
* indicates that the number of people in this category is
too small to allow percentages to be calculated.

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