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Table 5.2.2: Participation rate, mean time among participants and mean time
among population by sex and location.
Adult females Adult males
Rural Urban Rural Urban
Participation rate Percentage (%)
Cleaning house and care of clothes 85.1 88.2 38.9 50.5
Do it yourself 12.8 9.6 25.3 11.4
Chopping wood 28.1 18.6 10.4 5.1
Other 34.5 57.1 33.7 30.8
Mean among participants Absolute minutes per day
Cleaning house and care of clothes 33.1 47.6 19.5 27.3
Do it yourself 40.1 34.8 52.3 42.9
Chopping wood 17 18.9 18.3 12.5
Other 15 17.4 18.5 16.2
Mean among population Absolute minutes per day
Cleaning house and care of clothes 28.1 42.0 7.6 13.8
Do it yourself 5.1 3.3 13.2 4.9
Chopping wood 4.8 3.5 1.9 1.0
Other 5.2 10.0 6.2 5.0
Source: Calculations from the 2006 Tanzania TUS
Table 5.2.3 suggests that the income level might not be an important
explanatory factor for variations in time spent cleaning or repairing the house,
although men living in high income households devote less time to DIY than
men living in other households.
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