These studies are based on information on time use in nine
countries. Such studies will become more common as more governments
fund time-budget surveys and as economists realize the benefits of
using this type of data. Each does something that either could not
have been accomplished at all, or that could have been done much
less convincingly on the data that one typically obtains from
households.
Part I deals with the "when?" and "with whom?" questions describing
human behavior. These questions have been essentially ignored by
social scientists generally, and have been completely ignored by
economists. So long as we believe that people have preferences over
the timing and the context of their activities, we should be able
to apply economic analysis usefully to their decisions.
Part II deals with "what is done"?" questions of the quantities and
determinants of economic activities. While many of these questions
have been addressed using readily available retrospective data,
time-diary data allow both recording them more accurately and the
kind of disaggregation by type that is not possible with other
kinds of data.
Part III deals with children's issues - the determination of time
spent at home with children and its impacts on the parents and on
the children themselves. Here we have economic analyses using
detailed time-diary data and special survey questions that have not
heretofore been used to address these topics. Part IV consists of a
single study focussed on the issues involved in the creation of the
American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which began full-scale operations
in January 2003.
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