Table 3

Characteristics of household activities at home

Characteristics
Extra-domestic work (A) n = 196
Exclusively intra-domestic work (B) n = 341


Frequency
%
Frequency
%

Type of activity




Washing clothes*+
92
46.9
211
61.8
Ironing
48
24.5
96
28.1
Cooking*
25
12.8
115
33.7
Sweeping/dusting*
58
29.6
165
48.3
Cleaning bathrooms *
44
22.4
130
38.1
Making beds
49
25.0
102
29.9
Cleaning stove and/or refrigerator*
58
29.6
125
36.6
Washing windows*
21
10.7
58
17.0
Washing dishes*
65
33.1
167
48.9
Shopping *
49
25.0
166
48.7
Micro-ergonomic domestic indicator *
88
44.9
236
69.2

*p < 0.05

+High domestic workload was calculated in terms of frequency of the activity over time.

Torres-Arreola et al. BMC Public Health 2007 7:25   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-25