Table 3 Characteristics of household activities at home
From: Health and working conditions of pregnant women working inside and outside the home in Mexico City
Characteristics | Extra-domestic work (A) n= 196 | Exclusively intra-domestic work (B) n= 341 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequency | % | Frequency | % | |
Type of activity | ||||
Washing clothes*+ | 92 | 46.9 | 211 | 61.8 |
Ironing | 48 | 24.5 | 96 | 28.1 |
Cooking* | 25 | 12.8 | 115 | 33.7 |
Sweeping/dusting* | 58 | 29.6 | 165 | 48.3 |
Cleaning bathrooms * | 44 | 22.4 | 130 | 38.1 |
Making beds | 49 | 25.0 | 102 | 29.9 |
Cleaning stove and/or refrigerator* | 58 | 29.6 | 125 | 36.6 |
Washing windows* | 21 | 10.7 | 58 | 17.0 |
Washing dishes* | 65 | 33.1 | 167 | 48.9 |
Shopping * | 49 | 25.0 | 166 | 48.7 |
Micro-ergonomic domestic indicator * | 88 | 44.9 | 236 | 69.2 |