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	Care Work Measurement	Time-Use Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2005	1991
Originator	Nancy Folbre, the UN Statistics Division, and the ILO care-economy program	Time-use survey methodologists (F. Thomas Juster; Jonathan Gershuny)
Type	Time-use and survey measurement framework	Diary-based measurement and analysis of activity time allocation
Seminal source	Folbre, N. (2006). Measuring care: Gender, empowerment, and the care economy. Journal of Human Development, 7(2), 183–199.	Juster, F. T., & Stafford, F. P. (1991). The allocation of time: Empirical findings, behavioral models, and problems of measurement. Journal of Economic Literature, 29(2), 471–522.
Aliases	Care Work Survey, Unpaid Care Work Measurement, Care Economy Measurement	Time Use Survey Analysis, Time Diary Analysis, Time Allocation Analysis
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Summary	Care work measurement is the set of methods used to quantify the labor of looking after people — children, the elderly, the sick, and able-bodied adults — whether it is paid or unpaid, performed directly or as background supervision. Because most unpaid care is done by women and is invisible to standard labor statistics, the gross national product literally does not count it. Care measurement closes that gap using time-use diaries, care diaries, and stylized survey questions, organized by internationally harmonized activity classifications such as ICATUS, and often extended to assign an economic value to unpaid care.	Time-use analysis measures how people allocate their time across activities — paid work, unpaid domestic and care work, leisure, sleep, and more — typically using detailed daily diaries collected through time-use surveys. It is the foundational method for making visible the unpaid and care work that gross domestic product ignores, and it is central to gender studies because it quantifies the unequal division of household labor between women and men.