NEW YORK (AP)—Nine out of 10 working mothers who responded to a magazine survey on housework said they do the laundry regularly in their household, the magazine has found.

Husbands and children do the laundry regularly about 25 percent of the time, Working Mother magazine reports in its February issue. On the other end of the scale, 27 percent of husbands never even throw a dirty sock into the washer, the magazine said.

The questions were published in the magazine in April and drew responses from 2,811 working mothers around the country.

Ninety-two percent of the respondents did the laundry regularly, 67 do the vacuuming, 77 percent prepared dinner by themselves, 59 percent set the table and 64 percent do the after-dinner cleanup without help.

When other family members clean up after dinner, it is the husband’s chore in 17 percent of the homes, the eldest daughter’s in 6 percent and the eldest son’s in 5 percent, the women said.

It is more usual to get sporadic rather than regular help from children, the women said. Twenty-seven percent of the women said they got after-dinner help occasionally from their eldest son and another 27 percent from the eldest daughter.

Children roused to action around the house use major appliances at early ages, the survey said.

Mothers reported that 8-year-olds were operating microwave ovens and vacuum cleaners and that clothes washers and dryers were being used by 11- to 12-year-olds.

The magazine also found that men in higher-income families were much more likely to pitch in then men in lower-income families. For example, in households with family incomes under $25,000, 22 percent of the respondents say their husbands cook on a regular basis. When the income rises to between $25,000 and $35,000, the number of husbands who cook jumps to 34 percent.