Description – Chart 7 Average number of hours per week of domestic work, by age of youngest child in the household, Canada, 2010

age of youngest child Women Men
mean hours of domestic household work per week
0 to 4 19.8 9.6*
5 to 14 17.2 8.8*
15 to 18 9.4 6.2*
* statistically significant difference between women and men at p < 0.05
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2010.