IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/ngnjrs/347407.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Gender's Time Utilisation Pattern Among Rural Dwellers in Ogun State, NIgeria

Author

Listed:
  • Adekunle, C. P.
  • Oke, F.O.
  • Aromolaran, A., K.
  • Coster, A.S.

Abstract

This study examined time usage pattern over a 24-hour period among rural dweller’ in Ogun State, Nigeria. The study specifically assessed the socio-economic characteristics, average daily time allocation to work and pattern of unpaid care work of the rural dwellers. Data were obtained through an interview schedule from 240 rural dwellers collected through a three-stage sampling procedure. Data were collected on socioeconomic characteristics and average daily time allocation. The data were analysed using frequency counts, means, and multiple regression model. Findings from the study revealed that 54.4% of rural women and 67.5% of rural men were between age group 31-50 years. 20.0% of women spent an average of 4.9 hours on productive work when compare to 34.7% of men spending an average of 8.4 hours. 25.6% of women spent approximately 6.2 hours daily on reproductive work, which is higher than that of the 5% of men spending 1.1 hour per day. Cooking and domestic chores accounted for 88.0% of daily total time allocated for unpaid care work. Rural women’s age at first marriage (𝛽=7.08), education (𝛽=4.11), income (𝛽=1.32), value of assets brought into marriage (𝛽=2.83), number of dependants (𝛽=1.11), presence of co-wives (𝛽=0.65), access to improved water sources (𝛽=0.46), employment status (𝛽=1.04) and decision making power (𝛽=0.32) were the significant factors influencing their average daily time devoted to unpaid care work. It is concluded that an unevenly distributed burden of work exits, particularly unpaid care work with the women’s’ playing dominant roles in comparison to their male counterparts. Hence, policy issues aimed at reducing the labour burden of women’s unpaid care, should focus more on improving rural livelihood strategies that are gender responsive.

Suggested Citation

  • Adekunle, C. P. & Oke, F.O. & Aromolaran, A., K. & Coster, A.S., 2022. "Gender's Time Utilisation Pattern Among Rural Dwellers in Ogun State, NIgeria," Nigerian Journal of Rural Sociology, Rural Sociological Association of Nigeria, vol. 22(2), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ngnjrs:347407
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.347407
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/347407/files/Gender%27s%20time%20utilisation%20pattern%20among%20rural%20dwellers.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.347407?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Diksha Arora, 2015. "Gender Differences in Time-Poverty in Rural Mozambique," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 73(2), pages 196-221, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Seamus Murphy & Diksha Arora & Froukje Kruijssen & Cynthia McDougall & Paula Kantor, 2020. "Gender-based market constraints to informal fish retailing: Evidence from analysis of variance and linear regression," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(3), pages 1-16, March.
    2. Emmanuel Orkoh & Phillip Frederick Blaauw & Carike Claassen, 2020. "Relative Effects of Income and Consumption Poverty on Time Poverty in Ghana," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 147(2), pages 465-499, January.
    3. Nyagweta, David Tinashe, 2024. "A gender comparison of factors associated with time use towards unpaid domestic, caregiving services and selfcare in Kenya," MPRA Paper 122442, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Carlos Gradín & Finn Tarp, 2019. "Gender Inequality in Employment in Mozambique," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 87(2), pages 180-199, June.
    5. Amatullah Abdullah & Augustus Ababio-Donkor & Charles Anum Adams, 2022. "Gender Disparities in the Access and Use of Urban Public Transport in Abuja, Nigeria," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-24, April.
    6. André Cieplinski & Simone D'Alessandro & Chandni Dwarkasing & Pietro Guarnieri, 2022. "Narrowing women’s time and income gaps: an assessment of the synergies between working time reduction and universal income schemes," Working Papers 250, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, revised Apr 2022.
    7. Mou Rani Sarker, 2021. "Labor market and unpaid works implications of COVID‐19 for Bangladeshi women," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(S2), pages 597-604, July.
    8. Carlos Gradín & Finn Tarp, 2019. "Gender Inequality in Employment in Mozambique," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 87(2), pages 180-199, June.
    9. Gudina Terefe Tucho & Henri C. Moll & Anton J. M. Schoot Uiterkamp & Sanderine Nonhebel, 2016. "Problems with Biogas Implementation in Developing Countries from the Perspective of Labor Requirements," Energies, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-16, September.
    10. Cieplinski, André & D'Alessandro, Simone & Dwarkasing, Chandni & Guarnieri, Pietro, 2023. "Narrowing women’s time and income gaps: An assessment of the synergies between working time reduction and universal income schemes," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    11. Irene Y.H. Ng & Zhi Han Tan & Gerard Chung, 2024. "Time Poverty among the Young Working Poor: A Pathway from Low Wage to Psychological Well-being through Work-to-Family-Conflict," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 45(4), pages 892-906, December.
    12. Asmaa Ezzat & Hanan Nazier, 2019. "Time poverty in Egypt and Tunisia: is there a gender gap?," International Journal of Development Issues, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 18(3), pages 261-289, August.
    13. Thomas Daum & Filippo Capezzone & Regina Birner, 2021. "Using smartphone app collected data to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 38(2), pages 411-429, June.
    14. Hanmer,Lucia C. & Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina & Santamaria,Julieth, 2021. "Differences in Household Composition : Hidden Dimensions of Poverty and Displacement in Somalia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9818, The World Bank.
    15. Diksha Arora & Codrina Rada, 2020. "Gender norms and intrahousehold allocation of labor in Mozambique: A CGE application to household and agricultural economics," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 51(2), pages 259-272, March.
    16. Fernando Rios-Avila & Abena D. Oduro & Luiza Nassif-Pires, 2021. "Intrahousehold Allocation of Household Production: A Comparative Analysis for Sub-Saharan African Countries," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_983, Levy Economics Institute.
    17. Sara Stevano & Suneetha Kadiyala & Deborah Johnston & Hazel Malapit & Elizabeth Hull & Sofia Kalamatianou, 2019. "Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 1-22, July.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ngnjrs:347407. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rusanea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.