An (inter) action-driven typology of households. Identifying matchable groups of men and women based upon information on household work. SUZANA KOELET skoelet@vub.ac.be Sociology Department Research group TOR Free University of Brussels (preliminary draft – do not site without permission of the author) Abstract: This paper results from my search for a workable typology of households to use in my doctorate on the division of household labour. The most interesting typology for me would be one that assumes this division of household work, and is therefor action-driven. In a sense that this division depends on the actions of different people in the household we could even say that it is based upon inter-action. The search for such a typology is however complicated by the fact that our Flemish time budget data only contain information on the time-use of one member of the household. Additional information on the actions of other members of the household can be obtained though, using information from the attached questionnaire. In our household typology we take into account the share of the partners, the family and outsourcing in the different household tasks (male, female, neutral) (=questionnaire), the time spent on these tasks (=diary), and the amount of different household tasks one performs (=diary). Cluster-analyses are run separately for men and women in our sample and for singles and couples. The resulting separate typologies for men and women can remarkably well be matched. This leaves us with 3 different household types for singles (family-dependent, outsourcing and self-sufficient singles) and 4 different household types for couples (outsourcing, traditional, semi- traditional, and egalitarian). One last category of couples consists of a residual category of men and women spending very much time on household work, especially male household tasks.