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| Table 5 Housework participation and time spent |
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| Population |
Participation rate |
Time per day (participants) |
Time per day (population) |
Tobit estimates1 predicting minutes per day |
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’000 |
% |
Hours:minutes |
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| Total | 1,228 |
39 |
:59 |
:23 |
… |
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| Age | |||||||||
| 15 to 17 | 676 |
39 |
:51 |
:20 |
-2 |
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| 18 to 19 | 552 |
40 |
1:08 |
:27 |
ref |
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| Boys | 593 |
36 |
:55 |
:20 |
… |
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| Girls | 635 |
43 |
1:02 |
:27 |
… |
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| Immigrant parents | |||||||||
| Boy | 132 |
24 |
E |
F |
F |
-11 |
* |
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| Girl | 128 |
48 |
1:32 |
E |
:44 |
E |
17 |
* |
|
| Canadian-born parent(s) | |||||||||
| Boy | 453 |
40 |
:58 |
:23 |
E |
0 |
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| Girl | 494 |
40 |
:52 |
:21 |
ref |
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| Two parents (intact family) | 862 |
38 |
1:01 |
:23 |
ref |
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| Two parents (blended family) | 132 |
56 |
:57 |
E |
:32 |
E |
15 |
** |
|
| One parent | 235 |
36 |
:53 |
:19 |
-1 |
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| Education level of parents | |||||||||
| Both university | 213 |
38 |
:51 |
E |
:19 |
E |
ref |
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| Mixed | 358 |
41 |
:54 |
:22 |
E |
6 |
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| Both high school or less | 384 |
40 |
1:06 |
E |
:26 |
E |
5 |
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| School day | 773 |
37 |
:44 |
:16 |
-9 |
** |
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| Non-school day | 456 |
43 |
1:21 |
:35 |
ref |
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| Urban | 979 |
38 |
:52 |
:20 |
-11 |
* |
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| Rural | 250 |
46 |
1:21 |
:37 |
E |
ref |
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1 This is the marginal effect each variable has on the time spent doing daily housework. |
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| *Regression results statistically significant at the <.10 level; ** <.05 level, *** <.01 level from the reference (ref) group. | |||||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2005 | |||||||||