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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Indic Res. 2014 Jan;115(1):467–482. doi: 10.1007/s11205-012-9995-x

Table 2.

Activity card titles and descriptions

Activities Description
Eating Time spent eating meals, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Do not include time spent preparing food.
Preparing food or coffee Time spent preparing food, including baking injera and bread, roasting cereals, and preparing coffee ceremonies.
Collecting water Time spent collecting water, including the time spent walking from the house to the water source, the time spent waiting to fill the container, and the time spent walking home.
Collecting firewood Time spent collecting firewood. This includes the time spent walking from the house to the area where you collect and back.
Household chores Time spent on chores you do at home, like sweeping, washing dishes and utensils, tidying, collecting dung, and working with animal dung. Do not include time spent cooking or preparing food.
Caring for children Time spent caring for children, including breastfeeding, bathing children, dressing children, but does not include time spent caring for sick children
Going to the market Time spent traveling to the market and back, as well as time spent at the market.
Agricultural work and farming Time spent for farming work including plowing, sowing, weeding, harvesting, and hoeing.
Caring for animals Time spent taking animals to graze or drink.
Other work Time spent on other physical work like repairing houses, fences, or building shelters.
Coffee, social, or religious gatherings Time spent socializing, attending coffee ceremonies, attending Idura and Ikubb meetings, going to church, attending funerals, and relaxing by yourself.
Washing and bathing Time spent bathing and washing your own clothes or body. If you wash at the river or spring, include the time spent walking there and back.
Sanitation, including time spent defecating Time spent defecating. This includes time spent walking to find a suitable spot and walking home for open defecation. Do not include if it was part of another trip (i.e., collecting firewood or water, working in the fields).
Visiting or caring for the sick, including individuals that may have been ill Time spent caring for people in your household who are sick, or any time spent visiting a health clinic, including the time traveling to the clinic and back home.
Playing (for children <15) Time spent on games and fun activities, playing with other children.
a

Meetings where community members meet to deposit money for funerals or other life expenses

b

Meetings where community members meet every Sunday to deposit and collect money on a turn-by-turn basis