2001 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 73-84
The purpose of this analysis is to examine the primary factors of household division of labor in Japan. This study used 1, 200 couples' data sub-sampled from the 1995 survey of time use and leisure activities conducted by Statistic Bureau. By multivariable analysis, we got the following findings. First : husbands' and wives' hours spent on domestic labor are determined by their own working hours, especially these of wives'. Second : they are also determined by their partner's working hours. But husbands' hours only increased when wives' hours spent on labor activities are longer than theirs. Third : they aren't determined by their partner's domestic working hours : husbands' and wives' domestic working hours aren't in a relation of a trade-off. As concerns differences of primary factors of household labor between spouses, these findings indicated that husbands do the labor if wives couldn't do it.