Moldova Launches Groundbreaking Survey to Measure Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

The unpaid domestic and care work performed predominantly by women and girls has long been undervalued in official statistics , obscuring its economic importance and reinforcing gender inequalities. But with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO) , Moldova has taken a pioneering step by integrating a light time-use module into its Labour Force Survey (LFS) to measure such work more systematically.

The new survey, launched in July 2025 and running until December 2025 , will cover a representative sample of 10,000 households across the country. Using face-to-face, tablet-based interviews (CAPI method) , the survey seeks to quantify how men and women divide their time between paid work, unpaid domestic and care work, and other activities .

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