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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1991

Year: 1991

Module: Gender
Variable: DOCHORE3


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 evening dishes: 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 man18
Mainly woman45
Shared equally35
Someone else does it1
Not answered2


Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Mainly man 19 18
Mainly woman 45 44
Shared equally 36 34
Someone else does it 0 2
Not answered 1 2


Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Mainly man * 14 15 20 17 34
Mainly woman * 46 38 52 43 45
Shared equally * 39 42 27 39 21
Someone else does it 0 0 3 1 0 0
Not answered * 2 2 0 1 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 17 21 *
Mainly woman 44 46 *
Shared equally 36 33 *
Someone else does it 3 0 0
Not answered 2 1 *
* indicates that the number of people in this category is
too small to allow percentages to be calculated.


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