Table 2.

Activities reported by parents and children (with and without disabilities) performed at different times of day separated into activity domains

	Morning	Afternoon	Evening	Additional
Contribution to family life	▪ Sweep	▪ Sweep	▪ Sweep	▪ Look after siblings
	▪ Clean dishes	▪ Clean dishes	▪ Clean dishes	▪ Draw water
	▪ Draw water	▪ Cook	▪ Draw water	▪ Fetch firewood
	▪ Cook	▪ Cultivate: plant beans/vegetables, apply fertilizer, harvest maize/sweet potato, carry crops, dry millet, watering plants	▪ Cook	▪ Looking for relish
	▪ Cultivate: plant beans/vegetables, apply fertilizer, harvest maize, carry crops, dry millet, watering plants, use a hoe	▪ Use a hoe	▪ Cultivate: plant beans/vegetables, apply fertilizer, harvest maize/sweet potato, carry crops, dry millet, watering plants, use a hoe	▪ Smile at relatives/friends
		▪ Boil water		▪ Make grain store
	▪ Mop	▪ Mop/clean floor	▪ Light fire	▪ Make plate rack
	▪ Milk cows	▪ Light fire	▪ Slash	▪ Wash clothes for siblings
	▪ Light fire	▪ Slash	▪ Place pails under leaks in roof	▪ Wash clothes for self
	▪ Mould bricks (weekend)	▪ Cut sugar cane	▪ Boil water: tea	▪ Collect groceries (walk/by bike)
	▪ Cut trees	▪ Collect firewood	▪ Milk cows	▪ Going to maize mill (by bike)
	▪ Boil water: tea	▪ Draw water	▪ Herd goats	▪ Take grandparents to hospital (by bike)
	▪ Break stones	▪ Shell maize	▪ Shell maize, pound maize (girls)	▪ Graze cattle
	▪ Kill snakes	▪ Sell things at market	▪ Warm water for grandparents, parents	▪ Make plate rack
	▪ Pound maize (girls only)	▪ Cut trees	▪ Collect firewood	▪ Make grain store
	▪ Slash (cut grass)	▪ Kill snakes		▪ Assist grandparents, parents, relatives
			▪ Take things into house	▪ Bath siblings
			▪ Wash clothes for siblings	▪ Walk to town/hospital
			▪ Make bed	▪ First aid treatment
			▪ Mould bricks (weekend)
			▪ Break stones
			▪ Kill snakes
			▪ Wash clothes
Social activities communicating and being with others	▪ Drink tea	▪ Chat with friends	▪ Read/bible with parents	▪ Stay in the house
	▪ Chat with relatives	▪ Chat with neighbours	▪ Bask next to fire, chatting and telling stories	▪ Visit friends: on grandparents back
	▪ Chat with neighbours	▪ Chat with relatives	▪ Chat with relatives	▪ Quarrel with friends
		▪ Drink tea	▪ Listen to stories from relatives
		▪ Eating together	▪ Bask in the fire listening to stories	▪ Walk to friends' house, visitors, cooking, chatting, storytelling
				▪ Chat with neighbours
				▪ Assist friends
Social activities unstructured play		▪ Games: jiggle, bawo, fulaye, kapha lowa, table tennis, uachere	▪ Make/play with wire cars	▪ Play ‘house’
	▪ Make/play with wire cars	▪ Ball games (football, netball, volleyball)	▪ Play games such as Vyali (touch), jingle, fish fish, hide and seek	▪ Play ‘jiggle’
	▪ Ball games: football, filaball kachere	▪ Make/play soil dolls (girls), cars (boys)	▪ Chat with friends	▪ Make brick and carton cars
		▪ Play games (Vzali, chipako)	▪ Champion	▪ Play with bicycle toys
		▪ Walk on the road	▪ ‘Play house’	▪ Bawo
		▪ Climb trees – pick oranges	▪ Visit friends	▪ Hopscotch
			▪ Ball games: (football, netball, chipako with ball)	▪ Hunting birds (boys)
			▪ Dance	▪ Make mice traps
			▪ Fulaye	▪ Knit skirts for dolls
				▪ Repair radios
				▪ Ride a bicycle
				▪ Exercises – jumping/jogging
				▪ Other ball games (filaball, bullet, gundumu stop, fulaye)
				▪ Walk to football
				▪ Play with dolls
Structured/organized activities			▪ Exercises with carer	▪ Go to church
			▪ Dance: Vimbuza and Ingoma dance	▪ Bible study, pray
			▪ Beat drums	▪ Dance to zembo zembo music
				▪ Sing
Activities of daily living	▪ Bathe	▪ Bathe	▪ Bathe	▪ Apply lotion
	▪ Eat porridge	▪ Eat	▪ Eat	▪ Put on clean clothes
	▪ Wash face		▪ Sleep	▪ Dry self with a towel
	▪ Brush teeth		▪ Drink tea, drink ‘thobwa’ (millet and maize drink)	▪ Collect medicine
	▪ Run/doing exercises, for example, jumping			▪ Bathe
				▪ Put on nice clothes, shoes
				▪ Cut hair short
Education and schooling	▪ Study	▪ Go to school	▪ Read: school notes, novels	▪ Go to school
	▪ Go to school	▪ Walk on the road	▪ Write homework	▪ Walk to school
			▪ Read (Chichewa, English, Math, novels, school notes)	▪ Sit in a chair at school
Entertainment listening to or watch media		▪ TV, music, war films, Nigerian films	▪ Watch TV (music, war films, Nigerian films)	Watch football games
		▪ Listen to radio/music	▪ Bask next to fire, chatting and telling stories Listen to radio/music
			▪ Read (Chichewa, English, Math, novels, school notes)
			▪ Bask in the fire listening to stories

Entries given in italics represent children with disabilities, non‐italic entries represent children without disabilities and italics and bold entries represent both children with and without disabilities.