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Hours Spent Doing Unpaid Housework (7), Hours Spent Looking After Children, Without Pay (7), Hours Spent Providing Unpaid Care or Assistance to Seniors (6), Age Groups (9) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data

About this variable: Hours spent looking after children, without pay (7)

Definition

Hours spent looking after children, without pay

Part A - Plain language definition
Number of hours that the person spent looking after children without getting paid for doing so. For example, this includes time spent taking care of one's own children or looking after the children of relatives, friends or neighbours. The time spent on this activity is divided into blocks of hours (none, less than 5 hours, 5 to 14 hours, 15 to 29 hours, 30 to 59 hours, and 60 hours or more). Only hours spent on the activity during the week before Census Day (May 7 to 13, 2006) are counted.

Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the number of hours persons spent looking after children without pay. It includes hours spent providing unpaid child care for members of one's own household, for other family members outside the household, for friends or neighbours in the week (Sunday to Saturday) prior to Census Day (May 16, 2006).
Unpaid child care does not include volunteer work for a non-profit organization, a religious organization, a charity or community group, or work without pay in the operation of a family farm, business or professional practice.

Values

  1. Total - Hours spent looking after children, without pay
  2. No hours of unpaid child care
  3. Less than 5 hours of unpaid child care
  4. 5 to 14 hours of unpaid child care
  5. 15 to 29 hours of unpaid child care
  6. 30 to 59 hours of unpaid child care
  7. 60 hours or more of unpaid child care