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	Unpaid Work Valuation	Time-Use Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2008	1991
Originator	Feminist economists & national-accounts statisticians (Nancy Folbre; UN SNA)	Time-use survey methodologists (F. Thomas Juster; Jonathan Gershuny)
Type	Imputation-based monetary valuation of non-market work	Diary-based measurement and analysis of activity time allocation
Seminal source	European Commission, IMF, OECD, United Nations, & World Bank (2009). System of National Accounts 2008. United Nations. ISBN: 9789211615227	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	Household Production Valuation, Valuation of Unpaid Care Work, Imputed Value of Unpaid Work	Time Use Survey Analysis, Time Diary Analysis, Time Allocation Analysis
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Summary	Unpaid work valuation assigns a monetary value to the household and care work — cooking, cleaning, childcare, eldercare — that falls outside the market and is therefore excluded from gross domestic product. By multiplying measured hours of unpaid work by an imputed wage, it makes the economic contribution of this overwhelmingly female-performed labor visible, typically reported in national-accounts satellite accounts as recommended by the System of National Accounts.	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.