TABLE 5.
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, TIME USE SURVEY (1998–1999). RURAL AREAS.
| HHs with youngest below age 1 |
HHs with youngest ages 0–1 |
HHs with youngest ages 2–5 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | |
| Percentage of all households | 0.04 | 0.15 | 0.30 | |||
| Time Use: | ||||||
| Time spent on child care (minutes per day) | 236.62 | 159.28 | 196.90 | 152.19 | 107.19 | 129.05 |
| Time spent on child care by female members | 192.15 | 134.80 | 166.23 | 132.76 | 88.87 | 108.79 |
| Time spent on child care by male members | 44.47 | 82.20 | 30.67 | 64.70 | 18.31 | 51.21 |
| Time spent on physical care | 165.22 | 125.96 | 137.89 | 121.83 | 73.06 | 94.29 |
| Time spent supervising children | 55.50 | 114.87 | 48.96 | 105.50 | 24.26 | 76.10 |
| Time spent instructing children | 5.25 | 27.37 | 4.10 | 23.10 | 5.24 | 26.62 |
| Time spent taking children to places | 10.65 | 67.78 | 5.94 | 42.81 | 4.62 | 39.92 |
| Time spent on exclusive child care | 132.44 | 153.63 | 95.55 | 137.45 | 57.43 | 105.52 |
| Household characteristics: | ||||||
| Household size | 4.68 | 1.87 | 4.54 | 1.83 | 3.95 | 1.54 |
| Male youngest | 0.46 | 0.50 | 0.51 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.50 |
| Scheduled tribe | 0.24 | 0.43 | 0.23 | 0.42 | 0.21 | 0.41 |
| Scheduled caste | 0.14 | 0.35 | 0.18 | 0.38 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
| Hindu | 0.91 | 0.28 | 0.91 | 0.29 | 0.92 | 0.28 |
| Per capita expenditure | 393.31 | 175.58 | 393.83 | 188.92 | 408.61 | 196.36 |
| Land owned and possessed | 4.85 | 7.97 | 4.51 | 8.25 | 3.89 | 9.13 |
| Observations | 562 | 1,947 | 3,815 | |||
Notes: Weighted statistics for households in each sample. The statistics in the first two columns are for households where the youngest child is under 1, columns (3) and (4) for households where the youngest child is under 2, and the last two columns for households where the youngest is between 2 and 5 years of age. Time use is expressed in minutes per day.