Time use survey

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A Time Use Survey is a statistical survey which aims to report data on how, on average, people spend their time.

[edit] Objectives

The objective is to identify, classify and quantify the main types of activity that people engage in during a definitive time period, e.g. a year, or a month etc.

[edit] See also

• Productive and unproductive labour
• Value added
• Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive

[edit] 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 New Zealand
• Canadian info #2
• United Nations, Guide to Producing Statistics on Time-use Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work. New York: United Nations, 2005.