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.

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See also

  • American Time Use Survey
  • Productive and unproductive labour
  • Value added
  • Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive
  • Time poverty

References

  • Origin of Time Use surveys
  • British ESRC Time Use programme
  • Japanese info #2
  • Info from Germany and some other countries
  • United States info #2
  • British info #2
  • Info from Statistics New Zealand
  • Canadian info #2
  • United Nations, Guide to Producing Statistics on Time-use Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work. New York: United Nations, 2005.