41. Unpaid activities
Last week, without being paid, how many hours did [the respondent] spend:
[Read all the options and record the hours for each one. Record "000" if it was not done]
[Number of hours]
[] Assisting people with disabilities who need special care (help to eat or move, give medication, etc.) _ _ _
[] Assisting sick people who need special care (help to eat or move, give medication, etc.) _ _ _
[] Assisting healthy children younger than 6 years old (son(s)/daughter(s), grandchildren, nephew(s)/niece(s); to feed, take them to school, get dressed, etc.) _ _ _
[] Assisting healthy children between 6 and 14 years old? (son(s)/daughter(s), grandchildren, nephew(s)/niece(s); to feed, take them to school, get dressed, etc.) _ _ _
[] Assisting someone who is 60 years of older and requires constant care (fathers, mothers, grandmothers/fathers; to feed them, take them to the doctor, get them dressed, etc.) _ _ _
[] Prepare or serve food for the family _ _ _
[] Clean the house, wash or iron clothes for the family _ _ _
[] Go shopping for food or cleaning supplies _ _ _
[Continue if the person is a woman and is 12 or more years old]
41. Unpaid activities
This question identifies the number of hours in unpaid activities performed by persons during the preceding week to interview, for their own benefit or their family. Read the question mentioning its options, and record the hours for each option.
[Figures are omitted]
The first five activities refer to health care of sick people or with disabilities of all ages, as well as care of children under 6 years old, children of 6-14 years old, and people aged 60 years or older.
Here are some duties performed when the person provides "special and continuous care":
[] Special care: the person gives medicines to the other person, he/she is aware of temperature level of the other person, he/she helps the other person with eating, she helps the other person with mobility, he/she takes or helps him/her with rehabilitation, among other activities.
[] Continuous care: he/she monitors the other person or persons, takes them to school or other recreational activities, helps them with their homework, talk with them, dresses them, accompanies them, among others activities.
Note that the options 6-8 are regular activities in the house; if the informant mentions that the household members do them at the same time, ask for approximate hours spent on each activity.
Sometimes the informant mentions that he/she performs several activities at the same time, in these cases, ask for an approximate hours spent in each activity.
To record time, consider the following information:
[] Register complete hours, and round the number of hours if necessary.
[] If the person did not perform an activity or time spent was less than an hour weekly, record "000" in number of hours.