中国城镇在业夫妻家务劳动参与的影响因素分析——来自第三期中国妇女社会地位调查的发现

Factors Influencing Domestic Work Participation among Urban Working Couples in China: Findings from the Third National Survey on the Status of Chinese Women

本文使用2010年第三期中国妇女社会地位调查数据,除了从普通最小二乘法回归分析的角度研究城镇已婚在业者参与家务劳动的影响因素外,还特别关注群体内部的异质性,尤其是更多参与到家务劳动中的男人和更少承担起家务劳动的女人。通过在同一性别群体内按家务劳动时间分层,使用分位数回归方法能更全面地描述影响因素的作用。模型表明,在家务劳动时间的不同分位点上,同一因素的作用不同,表现为参数大小和统计显著性的变动。对于城镇在业夫妻而言,现有的家务分工理论在高分位点上有最好的解释能力,而在低分位点上仍需寻找其它更有影响的因素。

This paper adopts the ordinary least squares regression analysis to examine the findings of the third national survey on the sta- tus of Chinese women in order to identify the factors that influence domestic work participation among urban working couples, paying special attention to the differences within this population of couples between men who do more and women who do less domestic work. The study uses quantile regression to divide women and men by the amount of time devoted to domestic work so as to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the functions of the influencing factors. This model suggests that the same factor functions dif- ferently depending on the amount of time devoted to domestic work by women or men, indicating differences in the size of parameters and statistical significance. For urban working couples, the current notion of division of domestic work explains well only at the larger values, while other explanations are needed at smaller values.