Progress
Fair progress but acceleration needed
Fair progress but acceleration needed

Desired direction: In order to calculate progress towards the goal of equitable sharing of parental roles and family responsibilities, the ratio of women’s time to men’s time is assessed, with a desired target of 1

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Headline data

Time devoted to home and family care on an average day
Year Value Units
2013 173 Minutes
2018 161 Minutes
2023 154 Minutes

Geographical Area:

Unit of Measurement:

Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

Time devoted to home and family care on an average day
Target

5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
Goal

5- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Definition

Average number of minutes dedicated each day to activities related to home and family per inhabitant (domestic chores and care of people in the household)
Theoretical formula \[THFP^{t} = \frac{THF^{t}}{PHF^{t}}\]

where:

$THF^{t} =$ minutes dedicated by the population to home and family (domestic chores orcare of people in the household) on an average day in year $t$

$PHF^{t} =$ population in year $t$
Available disaggregations

Sex

Province
Frequency

Five-yearly
Data last updated 2025/04/22
Metadata last updated 2025/08/14

Source 1

Eustat-Basque Statistics Institute
Organisation Eustat-Basque Statistics Institute
Periodicity Five-yearly
Link to data source Time allowance survey

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

The purpose of the indicator is to measure the amount of time women and men spend doing unpaid work, to ensure that all work, whether paid or unpaid, is valued.

In addition, it also provides an assessment of gender equality, by highlighting discrepancies between how much time women and men spend on unpaid work, like cooking, cleaning, or taking care of children.

This indicator measures the average amount of time as a proportion in a day, so that if for a given country it is reported that women aged 15+ spend 10% of their day on unpaid domestic chores while men in the same age group spend 1%, it indicates that women spend 2.4 hours (2 hours and 24 minutes), while men spend 14.4 minutes on it a day, on average. As explained further in 4.c, this daily average is obtained from an average taken over the reference period for the data collection, and thus not mean that women and men spend these given amounts of time every single day.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator complies with United Nations metadata.
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 5-4-1.pdf
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