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Table 5.2.3: Participation rate, mean time among participants and mean time
among population by sex and household income
Adult females Adult males
Y100,000 Y100,000
Participation rate Percentage (%)
Cleaning house and care of clothes 85.4 88.0 84.9 40.7 45.0 42.0
Do it yourself 12.3 11.9 10.9 23.3 20.5 17.3
Chopping wood 28.3 22.6 20.7 11.3 7.6 4.6
Other 35.4 49.4 45.2 33.0 33.4 31.9
Mean among participants Absolute minutes per day
Cleaning house and care of clothes 32.6 42.7 43.5 21.0 22.0 25.6
Do it yourself 42.6 38.8 25.7 56.3 45.1 42.2
Chopping wood 16.1 18.5 20.7 18.4 12.6 22.5
Other 15.7 15.4 17.3 16.4 18.7 20.8
Mean among population Absolute minutes per day
Cleaning house and care of clothes 27.9 37.5 37.0 8.5 10.0 10.7
Do it yourself 5.2 4.6 2.8 13.1 9.2 7.3
Chopping wood 4.6 4.2 4.3 2.1 1.0 1.0
Other 5.6 7.6 7.8 5.4 6.2 6.6
Source: Calculations from the 2006 Tanzania TUS
One of the most interesting patterns to be highlighted in Table 5.2.4 is that
while women’s participation rates in cleaning, and the average duration of
their task, are higher in male headed households, men’s participation in
cleaning indicates a significantly higher participation in female headed
households (59 percent compared with 40 percent).
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