Measuring Unpaid Care Work in Household Surveys
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Walsh, MartinPublication date
2018-06-06Subject
Approach and methodologyKeywords
InequalityUnpaid care
Women's economic empowerment
Women's economic empowerment
WE-Care
Household care survey
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OxfamSeries
Research in practiceDocument type
Research reportDescription
Caring for people and domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water, is essential for personal wellbeing and survival. But across the world, care work is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities for education, employment, political engagement and leisure.
This research case study discusses the successes and challenges of the time use measurements used in Oxfam’s Household Care Surveys. The surveys, supported by Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme, aimed to measure adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work and other factors that could influence this distribution within the household.