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
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done by women as well as men in particular locality.
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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, i ...
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Productive and unproductive labour
Productive and unproductive labour are concepts that were used in classical political economy mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, which survive today to some extent in modern management discussions, economic sociology and Marxist or Marxian eco ...
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Value added
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Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive The U.S. Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive is a project to store, preserve, and make publicly available, via the internet, travel surveys conducted by metropolitan areas, states and localities.
As of 2007, the archive held 58 surveys comprising ...
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