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Title: Harmonizing Time-Use Data
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Economic data capture national and domestic production by using its financial equivalent. However, a great share of what people do does not leave any monetary trace. Childcare, domestic work, helping a neighbour or elderly household member, working in unregistered jobs or selling goods on the black market do not get captured in economic data. They can only be measured at the point of input, that is by the amount of time individuals dedicate to perform those tasks. National-level time-use surveys allow to estimate the amount of work performed everyday by stay-at-home mothers or by community activists. But they do much more. Because time-use surveys allow to describe in detail individual’s days, they also permit measuring differences in lifestyle practices and existing inequalities with regard to such issues as domestic division of labour between men and women, class differences in duration and type of childcare, health behaviours, and many more.
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Authors: Jarosz, Ewa
Periodical (Full): CONSIRT
Issue: 1
Volume: 4
Pages: 16-21
Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - MTUS
Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other
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