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SURVEY
DESIGN & OBJECTIVES
- Independent survey
- to measure the daily activity patterns
of people in Australia to establish current Australian time
use profile
- to study the differences in patterns of paid work and
unpaid household and community work by sex and other characteristics;
and
- to make comparisons with the 1992 survey to identify changes
in patterns of time use
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
Self-completed 24-hour diary
SURVEY INSTRUMENTS
Description
Open diary with chronological recording of activities
Recording of simultaneous activities
One secondary activity
Context variables
For whom; communication/technology used; physical location;
spatial location; mode of transport; with whom
ACTIVITY
CLASSIFICATION
1997 Australian Time Use Activity Classification:
3-digit level; 10 major groups; 69 2-digit level groups
TIME SAMPLE
Covers whole year on a periodic (quarterly) basis; each
respondent provides data for specified two consecutive days;
all days of the week surveyed in equal proportions; school
and public holidays represented in approximately same proportion
as occurred during the year
REFERENCE POPULATION
Description
National; household population (excluding 175,000 persons
living in remote and sparsely settled parts of Australia);
all household members 15 years old or over, with some exceptions
Sample selection
All eligible household members in about 4,100 sample
households were selected, yielding about 14,300 diary days;
72% household response rate; 84% individual response rate
SOURCES
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