Time-use survey

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^[quantify] surveys are used for calculation of unpaid work done by women as well as men in particular locality.^{[citation needed]}

See also

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

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.