A time-use survey is a statistical survey which aims to report data on how, on average, people spend their time.
Objectives
The objective of the Time-Use survey is to identify, classify and quantify the main types of activity that people engage in during a definitive time period, e.g. a year, a month, etc. Many surveys are used for calculation of
unpaid work done by women as well as men in particular locality.
File:Time spent on activities on an average day, by sex, Sweden, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on domestic work, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on free time activities, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on gainful work-study, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on leisure, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on leisure, social, and associative life per day, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on meals and personal care, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on paid work or study, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on personal care, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on unpaid work, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent sleeping, per day, men vs women, OWID.svg
File:Time spent on activities in an average day, OWID.svg
File:Time spent in domestic work, female vs. male, OWID.svg
See also
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American Time Use Survey The American Time Use Survey (ATUS), sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and conducted by the United States Census Bureau (USCB), is a time-use survey which provides measures of the amounts of time people spend on various activities, ...
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Productive and unproductive labour
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Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive
References
Origin of Time Use surveysBritish ESRC Time Use programmeBritish info#2Info from Statistics New Zealand
* United Nations, Guide to Producing Statistics on Time-use Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work. New York: United Nations, 2005.
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Survey methodology