Chart 4
Proportion of women and men aged 25 to 54 participating in various housework tasks, Canada, 1986 and 2015

Data table for Chart 4
| 1986 | 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Women | Men | |
| percent | ||||
| All household tasks | 92.3 | 64.3Note * | 89.9 | 76.2Note * |
| Meal, lunch, snack preparation; preserving food | 78.1 | 30.6Note * | 72.5 | 55.4Note * |
| Indoor housecleaning; packing, unpacking groceries, luggage, boxes |
71.8 | 20.9Note * | 53.5 | 30.7Note * |
| Laundry, ironing, sewing, shoe care | 27.5 | Note F: too unreliable to be published | 14.6 | 3.2Note * |
| Shopping or buying goods; shopping for services; researching goods and services |
43.2 | 29.5Note * | 34.6 | 24.1Note * |
| Repair, painting, renovation | 2.9 | 10.3Note * | 1.3 | 3.3Note * |
| Outdoor maintenance; planting or maintaining garden or house plants |
7.2 | 10.6Note E: Use with caution | 6.1 | 12.8Note * |
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E use with caution F too unreliable to be published
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