Time allocation to subsistence activities among the Huli in rural and urban Papua New Guinea.
Time spent on subsistence activities was compared between rural sedentes and urban migrants of the Huli population in Papua New Guinea. Person-day observation data were collected for rural sedentes (441) in the Tari basin and for urban migrants in Port Moresby (175). The time spent on subsistence activities by males was longer in the urban area than in rural areas, while that by females was similar in both areas. Conspicuous gender inequality with respect to labour hours in rural areas seems to diminish when people move to urban areas, reflecting the different subsistence regime between rural and urban environments.
Umezaki
Masahiro
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Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
Yamauchi
Taro
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Ohtsuka
Ryutaro
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*