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CPS1849 Shaymaa Wael A.R.
2. Methodology
Most studies use the costs of the production inputs to valuate household
production. This method is common in Standard National Accounts (SNA) and
is the approach adopted in relation to valuing production by government and
non-profit institutions. The alternative method is to value output, which is the
preferred method in both GDP and satellite calculations. However, it is difficult
when the goods and services produced are not sold on the market (PAHO
2010).
The ETUS 2015 evolved values for unpaid work depending on the answer
of all participants, who performed unpaid work, in the survey on a direct
question included in the survey questionnaire: If you hire a person to perform
this work, how much would you pay him? According to the results of this
question, the present paper tries to estimate the cost of unpaid family work
among the three main regions of Egypt (Urban governorates, Lower Egypt,
Upper Egypt) according to what so called the Replacement Cost Approach
which was used by CAPMAS in the ETUS 2015.
The datum that should be provided for measuring this approach is the
annual average cost of unpaid family work per person and total population
aged (10-64) who performed unpaid work. The estimation of population for
governorates done by CAPMAS in two ways: either a breakdown by age
according to sex, or estimation by region (urban/rural) the issue that will limit
the study on only three regions (Urban governorates, Lower Egypt, Upper
Egypt).
This study is an attempt to estimate the monetary value for the unpaid
family work by region in Egypt 2015. In addition, this study applies descriptive
approach including percentages through cross tabulation in addition to chi-
square test in order to test the relation between unpaid work and the different
demographic variables among regions. Bi-variate analysis will be utilized to
throw light on the main influencing factors that explain the variation in the
value of the unpaid work among regions by applying the binary logistic
regression and fitting the suitable model for each dependant variable.

3. Result
Nationally, the percentage of individuals who participate in unpaid family
work reached 68.3% in urban governorates then it decreases to 62.8% in lower
Egypt and 59.2% in upper Egypt; this reflects that citizens of urban
governorates are involved in family activities regardless the socio-economic
or educational level and especially among women as clarified in the upcoming
analysis and seen in the following table (1). However there are some
differences by sex, age, educational status, working status and marital status
in the proportion of unpaid family work.

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