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Percentage of total time (primary & secondary activities & passive care) spent in household production, by project, and all other activities: 2000 |
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 Household production accounted for nearly one quarter of total hours – primary plus secondary activities plus imputed passive care - in the year 2000. (‘Other’ includes leisure, study and personal activities, such as eating or washing.) If we look at only primary activities, people spent nearly half as many hours again on household production as in paid work. When secondary activities and passive care are included, they spent 10 per cent of total hours in paid work and 24 per cent on household production. There are two main reasons for this. Paid work is recorded only as a primary activity in the UK 2000 Time Use Survey, with no other activities going on at the same time. The care of adults and children, which accounted for half of total household production hours, consists largely of passive care, which is effectively a secondary activity (e.g. being asleep but also being ‘on call’ for an elderly relative or child). |
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Figure 12.6a
Percentage of total time (primary & secondary activities & passive care) spent in household production, by project, and all other activities: 2000 |
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