of all the things you do what is the most important way you contribute to your household the background information about the respondents demographically as well as for instance affiliation to the labour market makes it possible to give an insight into how different segments of the greenlandic population perceive they contribute the households they are a part of as mentioned above in the methods paragraph the answers to the openended question about peoples perception of the most important way they contributed to their household were categorized into eight categories ranging from softer contributions like emotional support and showing love and affection to material contributions like having a job and income and paying bills from providing care for the householdspecific household members to being a bread winner as this group has a more permanent labour market relation and thus income this is not surprising following from that assumption one might expect that a significant part of those working part time or did not work last year would be engaged in subsistence hunting and fishing and thus consider fish and game as their contribution to the household sculpture by hans lynge