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Figure 5.1.1: Distribution of female and male population preparing food by
duration
Source: Calculations from the 2006 Tanzania TUS
Who are the ‘overburdened’?
As expected, almost all the overburdened (95 percent) are women and about
70 percent of them live in rural areas. However, it is urban females who are
the most overrepresented among the overburdened (they constitute about 20
percent of the population engaged in food preparation but more than 27
percent of the overburdened).
About 53 per cent of the overburdened are women belonging to households
with monthly income lower than Tshs 50,000 (women with such income level
represent about 42 percent of the total population engaged in food
preparation). Women in households with average monthly income between
Tshs 50,000 and Tshs 99,000 constitute about 26 percent of the overburdened
and 20 percent of the total population preparing food, while women in richer
households constitute about 17 percent of the overburdened and 13 percent of
the population preparing food.
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