Participants were asked to identify some non-hazardous work performed by children:

Household chores by far the biggest category of non-hazardous work performed by children. Activities included picking up papers, cooking, general cleaning and cleaning bathrooms, toilets, and bedrooms, laying the table, washing dishes, washing clothes, making beds, sweeping, packing away groceries, feeding pets and helping in the kitchen. Learning how to do various things.	44%
Gardening included watering the garden, cleaning the yard and cutting the grass under adult supervision during school holidays and over weekends.	12%
Fetching wood/coal and water or something which may be carried by a child	9%
Washing cars (after school hours or on weekends).	8%
Going to the shops/spaza shop/cafe and buying bread	8%
Education like going to school, doing homework, studying, cleaning the school, reading books or being a school assistant were referred to 10 times.	4%

Arts and Crafts this included knitting, needlework, woodwork drawing and sheltered workshops e.g. pottery, vegetable gardens.	3%
Holiday/part-time work (including appropriately aged casual work, work in restaurants, work for parents and work under adult supervision).	3%
making tea for relatives	3%
polishing shoes own or parents' shoes for church	3%
Childcare involving babysitting or fetching siblings from pre-school was mentioned four times.	2%
Sport	2%
Entertainment Children working in the Entertainment industry such as television presenters or in advertising.	2%
delivering parcel to a neighbour	2%
Newspapers Delivering or selling	2%
Community / voluntary work (including voluntary community work, volunteering in old age homes and helping to clean the environment).	1%
Agriculture like helping with irrigation, looking after cattle and milking cows	1%

Participants listed a variety of general activities that children might be involved in, such as: Youth projects, going to the neighbour, budgeting for necessities, admin functions, fixing a plug, decorating the family home during festive season, taking part in a photo shoot, looking after themselves during the weekend, selling vegetables and fruit, cake-sale fundraising and assisting in family businesses where appropriate. The list provided by the participants describing forms of non hazardous work performed by children was interesting and comprehensive, but the largest category mentioned was household chores. The results indicate that most participants viewed household chores as the main activity engaged in by children, which poses the least harm to them.