TABLE 6.2.
PERCENTAGES OF CHILDREN WHO ENGAGED IN WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME, FOR THE FAMILY, OR DOING EXCESSIVE HOUSEHOLD CHORES IN THE PAST WEEK, BY GENDER AND HDI
| Work outside the home | Family work | Household chores | |||||||
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| Country | Girls % |
Boys % |
OR | Girls % |
Boys % |
OR | Girls % |
Boys % |
OR |
| High HDI | |||||||||
| Trinidad & Tobago | 0.11 | 0.59 | .19 | 0.45 | 0.47 | .98 | 0.11 | 0.12 | .89 |
| Montenegro | 4.17 | 5.56 | .75 | 3.94 | 3.93 | 1.04 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 1.15 |
| Serbia | 3.16 | 3.91 | .80 | 0.88 | 1.58 | .54 | 0.37 | 0.07 | 5.20 |
| Belarus | 4.37 | 4.38 | 1.01 | 1.77 | 2.34 | .75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | n/a |
| Macedonia | 4.28 | 3.20 | 1.36 | 1.43 | 1.07 | 1.39 | 0.14 | 0.00 | n/a |
| Albania | 2.30 | 1.91 | 1.20 | 6.14 | 10.48 | .53*** | 0.29 | 0.08 | 2.89 |
| Kazakhstan | 1.22 | 1.24 | .99 | 0.91 | 1.60 | .56* | 0.66 | 0.72 | .92 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.80 | 1.22 | .64 | 3.18 | 4.37 | .71 | 0.00 | 0.00 | n/a |
| Medium HDI | |||||||||
| Thailand | 2.66 | 2.40 | 1.09 | 5.80 | 6.32 | .91 | 0.31 | 0.36 | .82 |
| Ukraine | 3.35 | 3.48 | .96 | 5.71 | 8.70 | .64* | 0.37 | 0.12 | 3.16 |
| Jamaica | 2.77 | 3.16 | .86 | 1.23 | 1.19 | 1.02 | 1.23 | 0.89 | 1.39 |
| Suriname | 1.87 | 2.68 | .66 | 1.40 | 1.86 | .78 | 0.79 | 0.32 | 2.32 |
| Georgia | 14.01 | 15.54 | .88 | 5.34 | 6.07 | .87 | 0.58 | 0.85 | .69 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 0.43 | 2.09 | .18*** | 1.32 | 2.45 | .53*** | 0.57 | 0.34 | 1.59 |
| Guyana | 5.16 | 6.35 | .82 | 14.18 | 14.51 | 1.00 | 0.58 | 0.43 | 1.68 |
| Mongolia | 0.88 | 1.44 | .59 | 7.32 | 9.84 | .71** | 9.35 | 9.14 | .97 |
| Viet Nam | 1.70 | 0.99 | 1.74* | 12.72 | 14.20 | .86 | 4.02 | 1.98 | 2.07*** |
| Uzbekistan | 2.13 | 2.70 | .78 | 0.66 | 1.09 | .59 | 0.00 | 0.00 | n/a |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0.76 | 1.27 | .59 | 0.69 | 1.53 | .45* | 0.90 | 0.95 | .93 |
| Tajikistan | 3.92 | 5.07 | .77 | 0.97 | 1.78 | .55* | 5.90 | 5.07 | 1.23 |
| Laos | 1.25 | 1.67 | .69 | 8.85 | 7.55 | 1.16 | 2.41 | 0.92 | 2.48*** |
| Yemen | 2.10 | 2.11 | 1.00 | 10.09 | 12.31 | .80 | 13.32 | 6.32 | 2.39*** |
| Mauritania | 1.27 | 1.98 | .64* | 10.16 | 13.28 | .75*** | 3.60 | 3.22 | 1.11 |
| Ghana | 8.70 | 7.07 | 1.27 | 28.59 | 30.70 | .92 | 3.20 | 1.95 | 1.70* |
| Bangladesh | 2.05 | 4.49 | .44*** | 2.71 | 11.87 | .20*** | 3.97 | 0.87 | 4.84*** |
| Cameroon | 14.13 | 15.23 | .92 | 15.85 | 17.38 | .90 | 7.99 | 4.84 | 1.71*** |
| Djibouti | 3.86 | 4.46 | .90 | 2.88 | 2.24 | 1.33 | 0.22 | 0.51 | .39 |
| Low HDI | |||||||||
| Nigeria | 10.13 | 10.62 | .96 | 20.21 | 21.20 | .95 | 2.13 | 1.93 | 1.08 |
| Togo | 7.85 | 7.83 | 1.01 | 21.10 | 22.30 | .93 | 4.14 | 1.95 | 2.16*** |
| Gambia | 3.87 | 3.47 | 1.12 | 24.46 | 16.39 | 1.67*** | 2.18 | 1.18 | 1.67* |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 2.94 | 3.63 | .80 | 29.42 | 33.39 | .83*** | 6.40 | 1.91 | 3.50*** |
| Guinea-Bissau | 4.18 | 4.82 | .89 | 34.44 | 39.00 | .84** | 4.62 | 4.00 | 1.16 |
| Burundi | 2.33 | 1.94 | 1.18 | 3.66 | 5.96 | .61*** | 12.02 | 11.11 | 1.07 |
| Mozambique | 1.08 | 1.64 | .66* | 13.62 | 14.29 | .95 | 8.76 | 4.70 | 2.04*** |
| Central African Republic | 15.08 | 15.01 | 1.00 | 34.61 | 29.78 | 1.25*** | 11.08 | 7.72 | 1.50*** |
| Sierra Leone | 15.81 | 16.71 | .95 | 38.61 | 38.26 | 1.03 | 2.01 | 1.31 | 1.48 |
| HDI N/A | |||||||||
| Iraq | 1.31 | 3.23 | .40*** | 4.39 | 6.58 | .65*** | 2.44 | 0.99 | 2.49*** |
| Somalia | 2.62 | 1.78 | 1.47 | 37.63 | 39.54 | .91 | 32.63 | 16.65 | 2.48*** |
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| TOTAL | 4.14 | 4.90 | .82*** | 10.97 | 13.04 | .78*** | 4.01 | 2.25 | 1.84*** |
Note. n/a = statistics not available because of no variance in one or both groups.
*
p ≤ .05.
**
p ≤ .01.
***
p ≤ .001.