Groups 4, 5 and 6 in our first report (Part.1) : showed no significant difference in the time-length of housekeeping as well as in the degree of subjective symptoms of fatigue. The present paper has investigated further these groups inclusively as to how long they work on daily activities and how much they suffer from subjective symptoms of fatigue with special reference to the number of family members and type of family structure.
The results are as follows :
1. With the housewives of the families of three, time spent on housekeeping work on weekdays is the shortest. Considerable time is spent by them especially for sewing. They sleep long and show the least symptoms of fatigue. Generally speaking, they have considerable leisure time.
2. The housewives of the families of six spend, on weekdays as well as on weekends, the longest period of time for housekeeping and the shortest for sleeping. The time for social and cultural activities is the shortest among all groups of different sizes of the family. They have subjective symptoms of fatigue most frequently. However, comparing these results with smaller families, the difference between groups is not significant.
3. As far as the housekeeping work is concerned, there is no significant difference between the nuclear and the expanded families. The reason for this is probably that only small number of expanded families were investigated. (Only 12.6% of the total samples were expanded families.)