At the same time, a noticeable gender gap persists in the distribution of daily responsibilities. Women devote almost a fifth of their day to household chores, cooking and caring for loved ones — on average 4.4–4.6 hours. Men spend significantly less time on similar domestic tasks — around 2.8 hours a day.
According to the department’s report, the overall daily routine of the average resident of the country is as follows:
- Sleep, meals and personal hygiene: 11.6 hours (almost half the day).
- Rest and leisure: 4.3 hours (18.1 per cent of the day), with a significant proportion of this leisure time spent watching television, video content and on social media.
- Paid work: 2.6 hours a day. This figure is calculated per capita for the entire population, including pensioners and the unemployed. For those in permanent employment, the actual working day is around 9 hours.
- Education: around 24 minutes a day.
The National Bureau of Statistics emphasises that, compared with similar studies in previous years, there has been a trend in Moldova towards a slight reduction in the time devoted to paid work, against a backdrop of an increase in the hours spent by citizens on personal needs and household chores.
This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.The translation was also reviewed by the Logos Press editorial team.
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