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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Sources
- 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. link ↗
- 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
How to cite this page
ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Time-Use Analysis via Diary-Based Surveys. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/gender-studies/time-use-analysis
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