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Time-Use Analysis

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.

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Time-Use Analysis via Diary-Based Surveys
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / gender-studies
  • 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. · URL
  • United Nations Statistics Division (2005). Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use: Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work. United Nations. · ISBN 9789211614718
  • Gershuny, J. (2000). Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society. Oxford University Press. · ISBN 9780198287872
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See alsoDescriptive Statisticsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainGender Gap Decompositionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketUnpaid Work Valuationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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