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Household and market production
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What is household production?
“Household production is best considered as the production of goods and services by a separate economy, complementary to and competitive with the market economy. Every country can be analysed as two linked economies. The household sells labour to the market; it uses the money income to purchase intermediate commodities from the market which it transforms into items of final consumption through the use of its own unpaid labour and its own capital goods.”
Ironmonger, 2003: paper on importance of time use data: http://www.vub.ac.be/TOR/iatur/abstracts/doc/paper-92.pdf)
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D. Ironmonger, entry on “Household Production” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2001 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B0080430767039644
Household production is the production of goods and services by the members of a household, for their own consumption, using their own capital and their own unpaid labor. Goods and services produced by households for their own use include accommodation, meals, clean clothes, and child care.
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The process of household production involves the transformation of purchased intermediate commodities (e.g., supermarket groceries and power-utility electricity) into final consumption commodities (meals and clean clothes). Households use their own capital (kitchen equipment, tables and chairs, kitchen and dining room space) and their own labor (hours spent in shopping, cooking, laundry, and ironing)
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Statistics Canada: Women in Canada: a Gender based Statistical Report http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/tbl-c-g-eng.htm
Table 6: Time spent on unpaid care of a child in the household, by working arrangement and age of youngest child, Canada, 2010
Table summary: This table displays the results of time spent on unpaid care of a child in the household. The information is grouped by Working arrangement and age of youngest child appearing as row headers, women, men appearing as column headers, calculated using average number of hours per week as a unit of measure.
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| Table 6: | ||
| Working arrangement and age of youngest child | Women | Men |
| average number of hours per week | ||
| All women and men | 50.1 | 24.4* |
| Working arrangement | ||
| Respondent was working | ||
| Dual earner couples; respondent working full-time | 49.8 | 27.2* |
| Dual earner couples; respondent working part-time | 59.4 | 40.5* |
| Single earner couples; respondent working | 50.8 | 25.5* |
| Lone parents; respondent working | 26.9 | 12.0* |
| Respondent was not working | ||
| Single earner couples; respondent not working | 81.3 | 36.9* |
| Couples; neither partner working | 59.5 | 36.3E* |
| Lone parents; respondent not working | 30.0 | 8.1E* |
| Age of youngest child in the household | ||
| 0 to 4 | 67.5 | 30.2* |
| 5 to 14 | 37.7 | 19.7* |
| E use with caution * statistically significant difference between women and men at p < 0.05 Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2010. |
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Table 7
Time spent on household domestic work, by working arrangement, Canada, 2010
Table summary: This table displays the results of time spent on household domestic work. The information is grouped by working arrangement appearing as row headers, women and men appearing as column headers, calculated using average number of hours per week as a unit of measure.
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| Table 7: Time spent on household domestic work, by working arrangement, Canada, 2010 | ||
| Working arrangement | Women | Men |
| average number of hours per week | ||
| All women and men | 13.8 | 8.3* |
| Working arrangement | ||
| Respondent was working | ||
| Dual earner couples; respondent working full-time | 13.9 | 8.6* |
| Dual earner couples; respondent working part-time | 21.0 | 11.8* |
| Single earner couples; respondent working | 15.2 | 8.8* |
| Singles; respondent working | 7.7 | 6.1* |
| Respondent was not working | ||
| Single earner couples; respondent not working | 23.4 | 14.6* |
| Couples; neither partner working | 17.3 | 10.6* |
| Singles; respondent not working | 10.0 | 6.3* |
| * statistically significant difference between women and men at p < 0.05 Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2010. |
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Aguiar, et al (2013): “Time use during the great recession:
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.103.5.1664
“Using data from the American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2010, we document that home production absorbs roughly 30 percent of foregone market work hours at business cycle frequencies. Leisure absorbs roughly 50 percent of foregone market work hours, with sleeping and television watching accounting for most of this increase. We document significant increases in time spent on shopping, child care, education, and health. …”
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