Table 1.

Number of cases and percentages where either no mother, the woman's own mother, or her husband's mother is present in the household. HH, household.

	no mother in HH		own mother in HH		mother in law in HH		total N
Argentina 2001	76 003	85.84%	5336	6.03%	7203	8.14%	88 542
Brazil 1991	470 618	88.42%	28 184	5.30%	33 450	6.28%	532 252
Greece 2001	24 652	87.10%	774	2.73%	2878	10.17%	28 304
Indonesia 1990	47 008	77.21%	5706	9.37%	8166	13.41%	60 880
Iraq 1997	48 438	45.67%	1246	1.17%	56 371	53.15%	106 055
Malawi 2008	90 044	96.27%	736	0.79%	2755	2.95%	93 535
Malaysia 1980	6812	73.84%	526	5.70%	1887	20.46%	9225
Pakistan 1973	39 262	57.67%	764	1.12%	28 060	41.21%	68 086
Philippines 1990	315 127	85.34%	22 330	6.05%	31 821	8.62%	369 278
Romania 2002	76 582	69.69%	10 662	9.70%	22 648	20.61%	109 892
Sudan 2008	189 737	91.18%	2986	1.43%	15 364	7.38%	208 087
Thailand 1980	17 999	68.89%	4481	17.15%	3649	13.97%	26 129
United States 1980	692 733	97.11%	10 089	1.41%	10 519	1.47%	713 341
Zambia 2010	61 860	95.50%	751	1.16%	2166	3.34%	64 777
Sum	2 156 875	87.02%	94 571	3.82%	226 937	9.16%	2 478 383