Appendix 4

Appendix Table 5– Mothers and Fathers' Average Weekly Hours in Paid Work, OECD countries, approximately 2000,
(parents age 25-50, married/cohabiting)
	age of youngest child	0-2	3-5	6-12	13-17	all	0-2	3-5	6-12	13-17	all
		including those with zero hours					excluding those with zero hours
New Zealand 2001	Mothers	12	18	24	29	20	26	28	31	35	30
New Zealand 2001	Fathers	41	41	43	44	42	47	47	48	48	47
Austria 1997	mothers	20	17	17	24	19	33	29	27	33	30
Austria 1997	fathers	42	43	46	42	44	43	45	47	44	45
Belgium 1997	mothers	23	19	20	20	20	34	31	32	34	33
Belgium 1997	fathers	37	38	39	38	38	45	43	46	46	45
Canada 2000	mothers	20	22	25	28	25	27	30	31	33	31
Canada 2000	fathers	38	39	41	39	40	40	41	42	41	41
Germany 2000	mothers	8	12	18	25	17	25	24	27	32	28
Germany 2000	fathers	41	41	41	42	41	44	45	45	45	45
Italy 2000	mothers	16	16	16	17	16	33	33	35	36	35
Italy 2000	fathers	44	44	42	42	43	46	45	44	44	45
Luxembourg 2000	mothers	19	15	15	16	16	33	30	27	27	29
Luxembourg 2000	fathers	43	43	44	38	42	44	45	44	43	44
Netherlands 1999	mothers	16	14	15	17	16	21	21	20	23	21
Netherlands 1999	fathers	40	40	41	41	41	42	41	43	43	43
Poland 1999	mothers	15	23	26	28	24	36	39	39	40	39
Poland 1999	fathers	39	38	37	35	37	44	45	44	43	44
Sweden 1995	mothers	21	21	22	24	22	30	29	30	31	30
Sweden 1995	fathers	31	31	29	31	30	37	38	39	38	38
UK 1999	mothers	15	17	22	27	21	27	26	29	33	29
UK 1999	fathers	42	43	43	43	43	46	48	48	48	48
US 2000	mothers	24	24	28	31	28	35	35	35	37	36
US 2000	fathers	44	43	43	43	43	45	45	45	45	45

Source: International data from Gornick (2005), New Zealand data provided by Statistics New Zealand.

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