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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1991

Year: 1991
Module: Gender
Variable: DOCHORE4

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 cleaning: 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 woman73
Shared equally22
Someone else does it1
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Mainly man 4 4
Mainly woman 75 71
Shared equally 20 23
Someone else does it 0 1
Not answered 0 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Mainly man * 3 2 3 3 12
Mainly woman * 69 80 81 71 62
Shared equally * 28 19 15 24 23
Someone else does it 0 0 0 1 1 3
Not answered * 0 0 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 3 4 *
Mainly woman 73 74 *
Shared equally 22 21 *
Someone else does it 1 1 0
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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