The household operations dataset

How much work does running a home actually take — and how do real households split it? How often do families deep-clean the kitchen, change the sheets, audit their subscriptions, or hold a family meeting? Every answer site guesses. Fam is building the dataset that measures it.

It arrives as households join. There are no numbers on this page yet — and there won't be until they're real.

What we'll publish

• Chores per household, by household size and type
• Time spent per chore category — cleaning, meals, maintenance, admin
• Rotation norms: how often real households actually change sheets, deep-clean, and switch seasonal clothes
• How the work is shared across household members — what "fair share" really looks like
• Seasonal load curves: when the work peaks, by category

The rules, before any number exists

• Aggregates only. Means and medians. Raw records are never published, exported, or sold.
• No group smaller than 50 households. If fewer than 50 households match a cell, that number is never published — no exceptions.
• No personal data. Names, emails, addresses, and the contents of your household never enter any dataset.
• Isolation by default. Each household lives in its own isolated, encrypted database, and export-and-delete is always yours.