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Time Expenditures on Homemaking Activities in 183 Vermont Farm Homes
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Time Expenditures on Homemaking Activities in 183 Vermont Farm Homes
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Date
1946
Relation
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. Experiment Station Bulletin. Number 530.
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Excerpt
The time spent on homemaking activities during a summer week on 183 farms in Chittenden County, Vermont, averaged 82 ½ hours.
The housewives contributed an average of 6454 hours, or 78 percent of all homemaking time. They spent 3 5 or more hours on homemaking activities in 96 percent of the cases. Their homemaking hours for the week ranged from 18 3/4 to 120 ¼.
Breakdown of Homemaking Time
Food preparation claimed a fourth of all homemaking time, and house cleaning, care, and upkeep received almost as much time. Dishwashing took 15 percent of the time. To these three classes of activities the housewife gave 28, 21, and 1 2 percent of her homemaking time and other persons 18, 25, and 28 percent of theirs.
The housewife gave 85 percent of the time spent on food preparation; 75 percent of that spent on house cleaning, care, and upkeep; and 60 percent of that spent on dishwashing. She contributed at least 74 percent of the time spent on each of the other five classes of homemaking activities.
The housewives contributed an average of 6454 hours, or 78 percent of all homemaking time. They spent 3 5 or more hours on homemaking activities in 96 percent of the cases. Their homemaking hours for the week ranged from 18 3/4 to 120 ¼.
Breakdown of Homemaking Time
Food preparation claimed a fourth of all homemaking time, and house cleaning, care, and upkeep received almost as much time. Dishwashing took 15 percent of the time. To these three classes of activities the housewife gave 28, 21, and 1 2 percent of her homemaking time and other persons 18, 25, and 28 percent of theirs.
The housewife gave 85 percent of the time spent on food preparation; 75 percent of that spent on house cleaning, care, and upkeep; and 60 percent of that spent on dishwashing. She contributed at least 74 percent of the time spent on each of the other five classes of homemaking activities.